[Minuto a Minuto] About 20 thousand vehicles have left Santiago and 14 thousand have been returned

21:25 –

| Once the sanitary cordons were imposed on the outskirts of the capital, traffic increased in the Angostura sector of Ruta 5 Sur.

21:25 –

| After the authorities’ overflight, Mayor Felipe Guevara estimated that “this week approximately 210,000 vehicles should leave the Metropolitan Region, and that expectation is being met.”

18:47 –

| Carabineros indicated that “there is still a lot of vehicles that try to cross regional limits” in the health cordons #CooperativaEnCasa

18:46 –

| “The figure cannot be compared, because previous years we had not experienced this health emergency condition, therefore, we do not have any national holiday weekend that could be susceptible to comparison,” said Carabineros Captain Joaquín Nazar

18:45 –

| At 6:00 p.m. the sanitary cords were implemented in the Metropolitan, Valparaíso, Gran Concepción, Temuco and Padre Las Casas regions

18:42 –

| Carabineros Balance: Until 3:00 p.m., more than 20 thousand vehicles have left the Metropolitan Region #CooperativaEnCasa

18:14 –

| Bus terminals: Minister of Transport, Gloria Hutt, indicated that “we have complemented the intervention actions with other measures that are also part of the plan to return to mobility in a safe way, that is the sanitation of buses”

18:10 –

| According to government figures, 14 thousand vehicles have had to return -so far- to the capital, passing through the sanitary customs

18:09 –

| This is what the road to the coast looks like on Route 68 before the sanitary cordons are implemented. Also at this time there is expedited transit on Route 5 South and Route 78 before the holiday.

14:00 –

| President Piñera: “Long live the difference, because it enriches our lives, but let’s not forget that what unites us is more than what separates us” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:58 –

| President Piñera asks to celebrate with responsibility: “We do not want to lose in a few days what we have achieved with so much commitment” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:57 –

| President Piñera: “Our mission is to be able to leave our children a better country than the one we received from our parents” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:56 –

| President Piñera from La Moneda: “In the month of the fatherland let us renew our faith in Chile, strengthen the trust among ourselves” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:55 –

| President Piñera in his message from La Moneda: “I invite you to celebrate these National Holidays with joy, commitment and as a family. I ask you to do so taking care of our health” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:53 –

| President Piñera in his National Holidays message: “The vast majority of Chileans make a valuable contribution every day with different mechanisms. Sometimes silently and anonymously” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:49 –

| President Piñera in his National Holidays message: “We all have the opportunity to demonstrate the same commitment, the same love for Chile, that they (the heroes of Independence) inspired us” #CooperativaEnCasa

13:35 –

| The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, called to celebrate the National Holidays in “Covid mode”

13:34 –

| Likewise, he estimated at “more than 2,000 vehicles” those that were returned, only yesterday Wednesday, when trying to enter the Valparaíso Region.

13:34 –

| “The super clear message: we do not want them to come, we do not want them to move to their secure homes, they are going to have a bad time, they are going to be detained, we are going to do medical summaries. They are going to have a very bad time,” he said.

13:33 –

| The Valparaíso Health Ministry, Francisco Álvarez, explained that until today that “more than 700 sanitary summaries have been carried out only for the concept of second home” in controls that “are being carried out in more than 35 points in our region, and we are also inspecting spas and shopping centers “

13:27 –

| The undersecretary pointed out that “in the face of any flagrant situation that the janitors can verify, they do not have to take any type of action, except to make a complaint”

13:26 –

| “One thing is that you take note of the people who enter, and another is that you want to give them a supervisory role, which does not correspond to them, they are not empowered to do so and may even put their physical integrity at risk,” said Martorell

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13:22 –

| “Today they have joined to be inspectors as inspectors of the health authority under commission of service: they will be helping us to control these National Holidays in their communes, because they are the ones who know their territory best, they know what the points of their agglomeration will be , where should we be to monitor and prevent the creation of diners, clandestine parties “, explained the seremi Paula Labra

13:09 –

| This morning the Seremi de Salud presented the municipal inspectors who will participate together with the health authority in the audits: they were given credentials containing their name, RUT, photo and a government stamp to avoid falsifications

12:14 –

| In the last two days, about 14 thousand motorists who tried to travel to Valparaíso through routes 68 and 78 have been returned to the Metropolitan Region #CooperativaEnCasa

11:29 –

| In Araucanía, transfers to second homes are also a concern, so at this time there are intense inspections of health, police and military personnel in the lake area of ​​the region, mainly in the communes of Pucón and in the Lican Ray sector of Villarrica.

11:02 –

| Within hours of the implementation of the cordon, at this time there is a wide deployment in the Armed Forces and the health authority on the roads of the Biobío Region, to avoid transfers to second homes.

10:10 –

| Transfers to second homes are prohibited and to avoid interregional trips, sanitary cordons will be implemented in Valparaíso, the Metropolitan Region, in Greater Concepción, in Temuco and in Padre las Casas, from this Thursday 17 at 6:00 p.m. and until Sunday 20 at 23:00

10:09 –

| The Government also decided to advance the start of the curfew that governs at the national level and between September 18 and 20 it will be extended between 9:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.

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09:56 –

| The pandemic has left 439,287 total cases and 12,058 deaths from Covid-19 in Chile since March

09:47 –

| Chile lives its National Holidays this long weekend, but this time in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, so the traditional inns, ramadas or mass events will not be held. Likewise, they will be the first after the social outbreak of October 2019