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On Monday, the Minsal reported a new recommendation from the Covid-19 Advisory Council, consisting of shorten from 14 to 11 the days of isolation of cases confirmed by covid-19.
María Teresa Valenzuela, a member of said council, indicated that this is due to the fact that “scientific evidence has shown that the virus is no longer infectious, stops replicating after the eighth day “.
“Therefore, there is a compelling reason why the isolation of these cases really it should be up to 11 days “he added.
Along these lines, he also specified that “however, it is very important to make a tremendous difference between what is a confirmed case versus what is contact with cases, the close contacts, the intimate contacts ”.
Ultimately, the expert emphasized that “the suggestion is, for confirmed cases, to shorten their isolation period to 11 days, but for those who are the contacts of these cases, the 14-day quarantine period continues.”
For his part, Rafael Araos, head of Epidemiology at Minsal, indicated that the definition of this council will be deferred “until we have complete clarity of what is happening to level of the dynamics of the epidemic after the National Holidays “.
“We have observed that the number of tests decreased a little, was also accompanied by an increase in the diagnostic lag, that is, not only were there fewer tests but the results were slower, and this results from the mathematical point of view in an increase in the estimate of coronavirus infections “Araos added.
To the latter, he added that “the situation we are experiencing at the country level in which some curves show us some alarming signs such as the increase in R for example, we have to see how they behave in the coming days to find out if these trends are actually telling us that there is a real coronavirus outbreak or are the reflection of a post 18 artifact “.
“There are not many doubts in the implementation (…) But there is a technical detail that is that implementing this measure will mean a recalculation of active cases and that can make it difficult to interpret the numbers and that is why we will wait this week for implementation, Hill.
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