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Despite being one of the epicenters of the Covid-19 crisis in Chile in recent weeks, it is estimated that at least 70,000 tourists arrived at the Araucania region to observe the solar eclipse that this Monday could be seen in its entirety from that point.
Jessica Fernandez, spokesperson for the trade and tourism unions of the Lacustrine Corridor, a group that for several weeks called on the authorities to impose measures that would prevent contagion during the reception of visitors, and thus be able to work in summer, warned her concern about the possible effects of agglomerations in the context of the pandemic.
“It was a very ‘sui generis’ eclipse, with a rainy day. I think that the high sky helped a lot so that there were no large crowds, but there were, and Today is a waiting time to see what will happen in a week or two with the infections“, said Fernandez.
“We know that the controls were not exhaustive, there were not the number of personnel that there should have been, there were office hours. All that was not what we would have wanted as a control … There was an uncontrolled and now we have to wait for the consequences“, asserted the union leader.
On the other hand, 516 people gathered in the protected natural parks of Malalcahuello, Conguillío and Villarrica to enjoy the phenomenon under security measures, as detailed by the regional director of Conaf, Julio Figueroa.
The authority also valued that “in general, we can say that the preparation carried out by Conaf in its contingency plans for wild areas, and also the issue of prevention and combat of forest fires worked very well.”
The mayor of La Araucanía, Victor bunch, He reported that there were 113,855 audits between Thursday and Sunday, to which their sum 257 health reports and 927 vehicles returned for not having the necessary documentation to enter the Lake Zone.
