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This Thursday the Ministry of Health carried out the balance of COVID-19 in our country, an instance in which it reported 566,440 infected and 15,774 total deaths from coronavirus. While in the Last hours, 1,662 infected people and 84 deaths were registered.
Along with this, emphasis was placed on the positivity of the PCR tests that reached 5% nationwide and the list of communes that regressed in the Step-by-Step Plan was delivered, some even go to Phase 1 of Quarantine.
It is in this context that the health authorities present, including the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, and the Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, were consulted for the reason to allow international travel, but not interregional.
In this regard, Daza replied that “the borders are closed, absolutely closed, the only thing that is open is the Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport“. This, in relation to the fact that the aerial barrier was only raised for this enclosure in national territory.
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In addition, he indicated that “in order to get to Chile, people who come from abroad must have a series of sanitary conditions: the negative PCR, they have to make an affidavit and are under epidemiological surveillance for 14 days“.
“As of yesterday, at the airport it was established that randomly, although they may come with a negative PCR, PCR is being taken to those people randomly arriving at the airport ”.
Along with the above, he stressed that “we have to balance people’s needs with epidemiological measures “.
“There is no change in the averages that we have implemented in our country“, Daza specified regarding the borders and the airport.
Finally, the holder of the portfolio, Enrique Paris, announced that “a measure is not set in stone and sometimes we advance and sometimes we go back. If we notice that there is a sustained, progressive, enormous advance in relation to the data, we will sit down to meditate if it is necessary to make a change ”.
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