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A coordination meeting between Defense, Interior, the Metropolitan Intendancy, the police and the military was held during this day, to evaluate the plan that the total quarantine in Greater Santiago will be faced, decreed during this day after the Coronavirus cases will register a strong rise.
“This is the most important battle that our compatriots have waged, which is the battle for the life of Chileans “, noted the Defense Minister, Alberto Espina, detailing some of the measures that will be implemented starting this Friday, the day the mass quarantine begins.
The defense chief pointed out that the plan involves more than 14 thousand officers of the Armed Forces, police and the Investigative Police. In addition, he affirmed, more than 760 patrols, which will increase.
“President Sebastián Piñera has requested that all necessary efforts, sacrifices and contributions be made so that the government authorities, together with the police, the Armed Forces, the Fire Department, and the anonymous heroes, who are health personnel, can win this battle ”, he added.
For his part, the Minister of the Interior, Gonzalo Blumel, He maintained that “we are going to have 38 communes in quarantine and that is a logistical challenge, of the most important police and military deployment.”
Blumel explained that they will install customs at the entrance and exit of the Metropolitan Region, various control points and permanent patrols.
In addition, the Secretary of State He said that they will put immediate discussion to the bill that is in the Senate that increases the sanctions to those who break the sanitary norms.
“We are processing a legal initiative to modify the Article 318 of the Penal Codel, increasing sanctions for those who fail to comply with sanitary measures, from 540 days to 3 years and also increasing the fines very strongly. And establishing community work as an alternative judicial solution in the case of people who, in a very irresponsible way, break the rules, “he said.
“We hope that no later than next week that law can be released,” he said.
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