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A second case of coronavirus with the British strain was detected by the Ministry of Health. This was reported by the minister of the sector, Enrique Paris, in the balance due to the pandemic, noting that he is a patient who was reported today from the Maule Region and who arrived in Santiago on December 22 from Madrid on an Iberia flight.
“He is a healthy person, without a morbid history, he is in good general condition, asymptomatic, and he is already hospitalized on a preventive basis,” said Paris.
As a result of this, the minister said, the Ministry of Health made the decision to implement new restrictions for entry into the country: “This new arrival of a patient with the British variant virus has led us to decide on a change in strategy with the patients coming from abroad ”.
In this way, starting on Thursday, January 7 at 5:00 a.m., all people arriving in Chile, foreigners and Chileans, must have a negative PCR taken at least 72 hours before the trip.. “This is a responsibility of the traveler, but also of the airlines. They cannot board any person who travels to Chile without having a negative CRP of at least 72 hours ”.
In addition, he said he must do a mandatory quarantine for 10 days, “Which can end with a negative PCR done here in Chile.”
If they do not have these requirements, “they will not be able to enter the country or must be returned to the place of origin,” said the Secretary of State.
Regarding the close contacts that the patient had with the recently detected new strain, said Paris, these were “identified, and even put on forty preventive”. He added that PCR was taken and “we are waiting for the results.”
This Monday, the Maule Health Seremi, Marlenne Duran, detailed that “Yesterday at the last minute we had confirmation of some PCR tests that we had sent to the ISP, of a patient who came on the flight from where the first person with this new strain left. It was sent to be sequenced and last night they told us that it was positive for the new strain ”.
“It is important to say that the patient is in isolation, in total isolation. That his relatives are also isolated, all his close contacts, that his family group has undergone several PCRs and all have been negative, “he said.
“Today again, PCR is being carried out on his family group and the rest of the close contacts, and only to date a close contact, yesterday afternoon, also presented positive “, he complemented.
“This person is also isolated and today his sample was sent to the ISP to sequence. Today in the morning he went to sequence his sample, but it can probably be the same strain, since it is most likely that a close contact has been infected, but we have to wait for these results “, he remarked.
“It is important to give tranquility to the population because this patient has been very cooperative as well as his entire family group, and all his close contacts, and they have continued to isolate as appropriate,” the authority closed.
