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“We are already on the verge of collapse with the emergency beds with the respirators and also with the health teams, therefore, it seems to me that it is a measure that had to be taken anyway.” The words of the mayor of Providencia, Evelyn Matthei (UDI), reflect the consensus at the country level that was produced by the Government’s decision to decree total quarantine in Greater Santiago, the most drastic measure since the coronavirus pandemic began.
After a 60% increase in new cases of coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the new situation definitely forced the Government to file its “new normal” and “safe return” speeches and assume the gravity of the situation. This happens by tightening the measures and decreeing a total quarantine that will affect some 6 million people in the capital from Friday at 10 pm, in what was classified by the metropolitan mayor Felipe Guevara as the “greatest challenge” in health for the region.
“I had the illusion that Providencia was not going to have to go back to quarantine, but the truth is that the increase in infections has been so explosive in recent days that there is no other option,” Matthei admitted. Meanwhile, Joaquín Lavín, mayor of Las Condes, who has been at the center of the controversy over the opening of the Apumanque mall in the midst of contagion, also assumed that “we are experiencing a second wave in Las Condes, complex.”
Meanwhile, among the communal leaders of the opposition, such as the PPD Maximiliano Ríos, from Lo Prado, there was also support. “The decision that the health authority has taken to ‘quarantine’ Greater Santiago is the right decision, the mayors have been requesting it for many days, because we see that this pandemic is advancing, particularly in the most vulnerable communes, where We have very little space for our inhabitants ”, he warned.
At the union level, from the Medical College, Vice President José Miguel Bernucci also justified the measure, arguing in Radio DNA that “due to the data that was being seen and the situation in the emergency department, this seemed inevitable. We have to understand that the total quarantine, rather than helping us to overcome the pandemic, is to lower new cases and decompress the emergencies and hospitals. “
Once the quarantine was announced, the authorities have redoubled the messages to the citizenry: “If we as citizens do not commit to complying with the total quarantine, no measure will be sufficient,” warned the government spokeswoman, Karla Rubilar.
Along the same lines, Joaquín Lavín also made a wake-up call, noting that it is “unfortunate that there are already long lines in supermarkets. They are exposing themselves, and please also think about your neighbors and relatives. ” Along the same lines, Matthei sent the following message to the residents of Providencia: “Please take care of yourself, do not go to make any crowding today, deal with what you have at home and pretend that the quarantine has already begun.”
Call of attention
In the opposition they also aligned themselves with the decision of the Executive, but they took advantage of confronting their string of errors to La Moneda. In the opinion of DC deputy Gabriel Silber, “the stubbornness of the Government to not establish quarantine before, transformed the Battle of Santiago into the Santiago Disaster”, while the member of the Chamber Health Commission, Ricardo Celis (PPD), He warned that the “double message that the government delivered is passing the bill to Chile.”
Celis added that “we regret that the Government has taken the request that weeks ago parliamentarians, mayors and many experts made to declare quarantine earlier. They insisted with the new normality, the safe return and other phrases, which has ended in failure. ”
For the deputy from the north of the capital, meanwhile, “the dynamic quarantine that the government proposed was absolutely impracticable, since it was candid to propose a quarantine in which there was great internal mobility due to the conditions in Santiago, where people it moves from one commune to another due to working and working conditions ”.
Meanwhile, the deputy of the Regional Social Green Federation, Alejandra Sepúlveda, warned that “a total quarantine in Greater Santiago is not enough if there is no true control,” proposing that control must be demanded, that no person leave the Metropolitan Region and that may go to spread, especially to regions like ours, the O’Higgins Region, which is next door “
The parliamentarian, who along with deputy Esteban Velásquez (FRVS), also called on the Minister of Health to “not abandon the regions.” “The Antofagasta Region is permanently an area exposed by the thousands and thousands of workers with a floating population. The first weeks there was no control at the bus terminals or at the two airports, which are in the city of Calama and Antofagasta, therefore, these confirmed contagion figures are starting to skyrocket today, “he said.
For his part, the president of the Radical Party, Carlos Maldonado, criticized the government and recalled that “in March we asked for more drastic sanitary measures, and we were not heard.”
“There will be an hour of balance and responsibility, but that should be after the critical period ends. Unfortunately, the facts show that, at least in part, what we are experiencing responds to inadequate, delayed measures and equivocal signals, such as the call for a ‘new normality by the authority, as well as the difficulty of the Government to listen and attend to visions. or different proposals from yours, but now, for all of us, it is up to us to focus on facing this serious emergency with the greatest energy and responsibility, ”he said.
But beyond that, the radical helmsman called to expand and accelerate social aid, after the rise in infections. “It is a Government that has not wanted to listen from the beginning, and we reiterate it: the Emergency Family Income is insufficient in its coverage, amounts and speed of delivery. It will be approved because the government’s stubbornness leaves us no other way, but these amounts, insufficient and decreasing, will force many families to continue leaving their homes to seek sustenance, and now more than ever we need everyone to stay at home. ”
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