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On New Year’s Eve, the mayor of the Valparaíso Region, Jorge Martínez, called on citizens to “not invite people to their homes” and assured that the measure of the Ministry of Health that allows 15 people to meet this night per household is a “maximum limit for large families.”
The words of the authority were issued in a pattern in which the ministers of Public Works, Alfredo Moreno, and Defense, Baldo Prokurica, participated in which they recalled the restrictions on the routes in force at the national level and shortly after a balance was known of the coronavirus situation in the country, which according to the latest report reached 3,000 active cases, the highest figure in almost six months.
“The pandemic has not disappeared, on the contrary, and today we have especially seen it continue to increase and people with names, with families, usually the elderly, people with chronic diseases die”, started expressing Martínez.
“The idea is that we divide the work: we, the authorities, with the Armed Forces, with Carabineros, with the PDI, with all the inspectors of the Ministry of Health, we are going to isolate the territories so that people do not go from one place to another. , that’s our task. Sometimes misunderstood by the congestion that occurs, “said the mayor.
Along these lines, the authority called on the citizens to carry out the other part of the task. “Do not invite people to your houses because in the houses we invite neighbors, friends, if someone has Covid, nobody says they have it, we take off our mask, drink something, eat something and with a sick one, all that group was contagious and our main focus of National contagion, and in the Valparaíso region, it is intra-domiciliary contagion due to overconfidence and loss of respect for this disease”.
Asked if there would be a contradiction between his call and the regulation of the Ministry of Health that allows a maximum capacity of 15 people per household during the New Year’s celebration, Martínez replied: “The Minsal rule is simple: the maximum capacity of a home, in Phase 2 (Transition), is 15 people, but that does not mean that you have to invite until you complete 15. That means that if there are 15 in a family people, then it’s very good (…) ”. “That is a maximum limit for large families that exist. Let’s not occupy the limit. If the family is 5 people, let’s make an effort that those 5 people celebrate the New Year tonight today. “he insisted.
