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Following a further negative result in court, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, confirmed this Saturday the delivery of the Ministry emails requested by the Prosecutor’s Office within three business days.
On Friday afternoon it was learned that the Seventh Guarantee Court of Santiago I had rejected the Minister’s request to extend for 42 business days the delivery requested by the North Central Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office, within the framework of the criminal investigation on the management of the portfolio and deaths in a pandemic.
On Monday, Paris had filed such a petition, arguing that reviewing the large number of post existing -that amount to 49 thousand, hosted on Entel servers- requires the exclusive work of at least a dozen people for a minimum period of almost a month.
This work aims at exclusion of sensitive information for national security and the protection of private patient information, the portfolio has said.
“Avatars of Justice”
Consulted today, in the televised report, by the decision of the court, Paris replied: “I do not consider it any setback, these are the vicissitudes of Justice: Ministry lawyers asked for an extension, which was not granted. “
In addition, he indicated that there will be no additional resources to delay delivery: “We, obviously, We will fully comply with the judge’s opinion and the emails will be delivered within the specified period“.
“It must be remembered that there are 49 thousand emails, of which we must select (and remove) those that may put national security or the privacy of patients at risk “said Paris.
Notwithstanding, he continued, “We will do it as quickly as possible; people will have to be hired or put a lot of people (from the Ministry) working on that for the next business days that have been granted, but we will deliver all the information, as we have always said: If it is the mandate of justice, it will be done“, he emphasized.
“As the possibility of extending the term was rejected, the Ministry officials will make every effort to respond to the judge’s request,” the successor of Jaime Mañalich closed.
Prosecutor’s lawyer accused possible crime of contempt
For his part, the plaintiff attorney, Ramón Sepúlveda, indicated that “if today the Ministry of Health and Entel still do not deliver the information, We believe that they could clearly incur the crime of contempt. “
“In the event that they have already delivered to you and have not indicated within the three-day period that the resolution that has been executed, which established the procedure by which this delivery of documentation would have to be carried out, we believe that it had to be understood that there were no exceptions “, the lawyer pointed out.
Therefore, Sepúlveda pointed out, “the Supreme Court and the Prosecutor’s Office can take possession of absolutely all the documentation in this investigation, which We believe it has been delayed excessively. “
Another fifty deceased
As for the figures, the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Alberto Dougnac, reported 1,568 new cases (519,977 in total) for 39,290 PCR tests (4,541,869 in total), reflecting a 3.9 percent positivity.
Meanwhile, it was reported 49 other fatalities, to get to 14,499 total, since the beginning of the epidemic.
Saturday November 7 | Assistance Network # COVID-19
🔹 734 hospitalized
🔹 584 in mechanical ventilation
🔹 100 critics
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🔹 39,290 PCR tests performed (4,541,869 in total) pic.twitter.com/Hy7IPnzL4m– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) November 7, 2020
On the other hand, the mayor of Lo Barnechea, Christopher Lira, recalled that many of the virus outbreaks are produced “basically by social gatherings in homes, therefore, I ask the neighbors, and whoever sees an irregular act regarding health care, to report at 1405 “.
“We have 10 examiners who are ready to do the corresponding sanitary summaries,” he warned.
Reopening of beaches
On the official reopening of beaches in Valparaíso and Viña del Mar -situation that worries the people of the area- the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, called for “people to respect self-care measures.”
“Today we particularly have sanitary crews in some of these regions, who are young people from the health, education, and social sciences areas who are going to be on the beaches educating people on the importance of self-care measures, the importance of risk communication, the importance of avoid conglomeration “, detailed the health authority.
In addition, he indicated that this situation will be experienced not only on the beaches, since “We are seeing that summer is approaching and people are going out, they will be able to move from one region to another, but we need people to respect self-care measures. “
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“We call on people to continue respecting self-care measures, mainly in areas that are coming out of quarantine after so many months.” pic.twitter.com/HyLeSL6QaP
– Ministry of Health (@ministeriosalud) November 7, 2020
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