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The Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, defended the trip made by the First Lady, Cecilia Morel, to Miami in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, ensuring that he complied with all health protocols.
In an activity carried out during this day, Daza indicated that “Mrs. Cecilia complied with all the health protocols when she arrived in our country, from the point of view of their quarantine. Once he was quarantined, a negative PCR was done, also the follow-up to travelers and also of course the health passport “.
“The trips made by each of the people are personal trips and therefore she has met all the health criteria and we hope all Chileans will do so when they arrive in the country,” he added.
However, as confirmed by the Presidency, Morel arrived in Chile on December 13, so he did not comply with a quarantine greater than four days, participating on the 17th of the same month in an activity called “La Ruta de la Vacuna”, with President Piñera and the same undersecretary Daza.
Morel’s trip was also questioned by Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, publications coordinator at the Institute for Society Studies (IES) – an institution linked to the center-right – who stated that “it feels like a kick in the stomach.”
Mayors divided by vacation leave
Following the announcement of the implementation of a vacation permit, mayors of tourist communes have had various reactions, although they have expressed concern about a possible increase in cases.
The mayor of Pucón, Carlos Barra, indicated that “I think the health authority has taken some precautions that I think are valid, but nothing is possible if there is no specific control. We, those of us who receive many tourists, agree that we must also get out of this while working, because one cannot be without working, which is a general outcry “.
For its part, Rodrigo Garcia, Mayor of Cartagena, stated that his commune “is the capital of the elderly and that although there are people, as Minister Paris says, who have the right to go on vacation, I ask if the people of Cartagena also have the right, those who older adults have been responsible. “
“The question is what happens if an older adult catches it from a person from the Metropolitan Region, the minister will not be here to see the face of the family, “he questioned.
The epidemiologist from the Catholic University, Catterina Ferreccio, said that this plan “is something that has to be reviewed, in the sense of starting it up to see how it works and reviewing in a couple of weeks, because deep down it has some complications. “
“The first thing is that it is necessary for the State of Chile to have the capacity to oversee all contagion prevention measures so that this does not turn into an explosion,” he said.
From Fedetur, its executive vice president, Helen KouyoumdjianHe said that “we are very relieved and it is a respite in a year that has been very difficult for the industry, in which we have been totally paralyzed and in some way, although there is much left to recover, it is the beginning of a possible recovery” .
“We always have to think that health comes first, but there my message is that today with this very gradual, very limited opening that we are having, that it is positive, we are not going to have crowd tourism, this is very limited “, he pointed out.
