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The Ministry of Health modified the criteria of its Step-by-Step Plan, so moving from one stage to another is now more strict and complex.
According to what was reported by El Mercurio, the portfolio gathered the proposals of experts and the Advisory Council itself to update the deployment of its strategy.
In this way, according to the changes published by Health, two requirements were replaced, one more was added and two were tightened, which could imply the backwardness of some communes.
The first criterion dating from the beginning of the plan and which was recently replaced corresponds to the regional projected active case rate. In its place, the rate of new cases (weekly moving average).
As an example, for a commune to go from Quarantine to Transition it must report numbers of new infections less than 10 per 100,000 thousand inhabitants (see table). While to go from Initial Opening to Advanced Opening, that figure must be less than 2 per 100,000 thousand inhabitants.
The same happened with cases contacted in less than 48 hours, indicator that was replaced by cases isolated from suspicion / probable notification.
To advance to Transition, the figure must be 80% in less than 48 hours.
More strict
As anticipated, a new criterion was also added: contacts in quarantine since diagnosis of the confirmed / probable case.
In this case, to exit Quarantine, you must have 60% in less than 48 hours.
In addition to what has already been mentioned, two other criteria were hardened. The first of them? Positivity at 7 days. If before to exit Quarantine 15% was required, now that number must be less than 10%.
Second appears the indicator of new cases coming from follow-up contacts. Regarding the latter, there is a notable difference to advance to Transition and Preparation, since both steps did not require a specific number. Now, the communes must present at least 60% in these stages.
The experts
According to El Mercurio, the expert engineer in data visualization, Ernesto Laval, explained that “there are regions that had completely moved to the initial opening stage, particularly La Araucanía, Los Ríos and Aysén, but when one looks at the new indicators, for example, for new cases, they should all go back one stage ”.
“It does not correspond to the stage they are in,” he reflected.
A little more critical was Rafael González, academic from the Center for Applied Nanotechnology of the Universidad Mayor, who told the morning that “it is positive that these changes are made, but more than six weeks have passed since the Advisory Council made these recommendations” .
“In that time, more than 82 thousand new cases have been reported and most of the Metropolitan region is no longer in quarantine. We are arriving late, ”he lashed out.
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