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On December 3, First Lady Cecilia Morel, along with her daughters, took a flight from Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport to Miami. It was a 10-day “family trip”, but it took place in a context in which COVID-19 infections began to increase again. In fact, a week after boarding the plane, the Metropolitan Region regressed to phase 2 of the Step by Step Plan, which includes the prohibition of interregional travel and quarantine on weekends and holidays.
“From December 4 to 13, Cecilia Morel and her two daughters made a family trip to the United States, complying with all current protocols and sanitary standards, including the PCR test upon return, the results of which were negative,” reported the office of the first lady in the middle Cyprus.
But in addition, Morel’s trip occurs at a time when criticism has been present due to the prohibition of interregional travel for communes that are in Quarantine and Transition, which contrasts with the null restriction to travel outside the country.
Added to this situation is the arrival on December 22 of a woman of Chilean nationality infected with the new strain of covid-19.
However, the first lady’s office informed Ciper that both she and her daughters had applied a PCR test that was negative.
Despite being on vacation, Cecilia Morel continued using her Twitter account to continue spreading information. This is how, for example, on December 4 it reported on a protocol to visit the elderly at Christmas. Five days later, on December 9, he shared information regarding an activity at the Mirador Interactive Museum (MIM) during the eclipse. And on December 10 he published a video commemorating the 75 years of the Nobel Prize for Gabriela Mistral.
Santiago Airport opening
This situation once again calls into question the measure to reopen the Santiago Airport, which became effective on November 23. A few days later, there was an increase in the number of infections by covid-19 and on 10, the Metropolitan Region regressed to phase 2.
A day later, the mayor of the RM, Felipe Guevara, assured that “we have the ability to control airport users.”
The internist doctor and master’s degree in Public Health, Juan Carlos Said, commented to Ciper that “there are no easy or defining decisions, because it is very difficult to put your head under the ground and close all contact with the rest of the countries indefinitely. However, In view of the evidence that already existed, it seems to me that banning travel from the UK was a late decision, which had to be adapted at least two weeks before. The danger of keeping that route open, along with the arrival of passengers passing through the UK in the last 14 days, it was very latent. “
For Said, the effectiveness of the measures applied by the Executive is currently at stake. “This surveillance, in most cases, consists of completing a survey that is sent by email to report the presentation of symptoms and other things related to the contagion. It seems to me correct that measures are taken depending on the epidemiological situation of each country, and that all borders are not completely closed. But all that works only if surveillance is applied that is effective, and there is still room to improve in that regard. “
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