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The Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, I affirm that the sociopolitical context of the country, after the social outbreak, has made it difficult to get the message of self-care to the citizens, complicating the control of the Covid-19 pandemic, and admitted that the speed of the outbreak has forced accelerate the plans that had been set for next month.
In interview with Third, the Secretary of State acknowledged being intensely concerned, why We have designed an advance of the answer that I thought was going to be more necessary towards June. We have had to advance it to May, “referring -among other measures- to the mandatory quarantine for Greater Santiago and six other communes in the Metropolitan Region starting Friday night.
It is the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began in Chile that the 32 communes of the province of Santiago will enter into confinement at the same time. To these are added San Bernardo, Buin, Puente Alto, Padre Hurtado, Lampa and Colina, located in the suburbs.
The announced measure, which will enter into force on Friday from 22.00, affects about 8 million people and had been requested by different mayors and medical organizations in recent days.
According to Mañalich, “extreme measures, which are extremely harsh, have to achieve an objective, and that is that the number of daily infections drops, at any rate, to less than 2,000. It distresses and worries me that we jump quickly from 300 to an average of 700, and from there to an average of 1,400. “
“UNWANTED BEHAVIOR” OF THE POPULATION
In the minister’s opinion, the increase in infections in the capital could be explained by a behavior of the population that “was not desirable” after movement restrictions were lifted in some communes.
“There was a liberation in terms of throwing parties in departments, clandestine, which meant a huge risk potential, and that led me, before the cases began, to make a declaration of war that everything would He played in the battle for Santiago, until the numbers backed him up and we got to the actions we are in today, “he said.
AUTOCRITIC
The Health Minister also made a self-criticism regarding role of the government in the fight against the pandemic.
“I believe that we have not been able to find a mechanism for dialogue with citizens, transparent and in good faith“Mañalich acknowledged, considering the political and social crisis in which the country was immersed since October 18, 2019.
“Telling people to trust what the state tells them as correct conduct is very difficult. That background of lack of mutual trust played a trick on us in the fight against this pandemic “he sentenced.
Chile is under a state of emergency, with a curfew from 10:00 pm since mid-March, with schools, universities and borders closed, as well as most non-staple businesses.
The new cases had stabilized at around 500 a day at the end of April and the authorities were already talking about overcoming the contagion and returning to normal, but since the beginning of the month they experienced a significant increase above a thousand and a record of 2,660 new positives 19 on Wednesday.
