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“With great joy.” Thus the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, announced this Sunday that five communes in the Metropolitan Region –San José de Maipo, Providencia, Las Condes, Ñuñoa and Vitacura– and two from Valparaíso –The Andes and San Felipe– They will advance to the third stage of the Step by Step Plan: Preparation.
Along the same lines, the health authorities also announced that Rengo (O’Higgins) will be released from confinement and will enter the Transition phase.
However, not all the announcements – regarding the Step by Step Plan – were advances. Santa Cruz, Chillán Viejo, Chillán and Hualqui must go back to quarantine. This, said Paris, “in relation to the increase in cases and numerous other factors.”
All these measures They will be effective as of next Wednesday, September 2 at 5:00, when the curfew time ends.
On the other hand, the Secretary of State reported that The restaurants that are in municipalities that are in Preparation -that is, the third phase- may open in “terraces and sidewalks”From this Wednesday.
The mayor of Providencia, Evelyn matthei, after the announcement of the transition of the commune to phase 3 assured that “I am really happy. This is basically an achievement of our neighbors who have had an enormously responsible behavior ”.
In that sense, he called to continue respecting self-care measures such as the use of a mask, hand washing and physical distancing. “We don’t want to go back to phase 2 and that depends on the responsible behavior of all of us”, he concluded.
His pair of Ñuñoa, Andres Zarhi, also appreciated the news: “It reflects that the work we have done, both in the field of health and the responsibility of the neighbors, has been really decisive”. The mayor also highlighted that the commune created an active search center for Covid cases and “this has allowed us to exceed one thousand PCR (test) weekly.”
Regarding the opening of restaurants in open spaces, Zarhi called for responsibility and recalled that the owners of these establishments, “must adopt sanitary measures. We ask them for responsibility, this is not over ”.
“We are going to complete almost five weeks in phase 2 and the infections have been maintained, they have not risen,” said, meanwhile, the communal chief of Las Condes, Joaquín Lavín, who also announced that “We are going to do something special in Isidora Goyenechea, where the idea is to close the street so that restaurants can put their tables outside and support them to recover economically.”
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