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In the balance on coronavirus cases in the country delivered today by the Minsal, the authorities announced a series of measures around the management of the pandemic.
One of them is the implementation of sanitary cords for him next long weekend of monday october 12. These will be implemented from Friday 9 at 18:00 until Monday 12 at 23:00 in the Greater Valparaíso, Greater Concepción, Temuco / Padre Las Casas and the Metropolitan Region.
As explained by the Undersecretary for Crime Prevention, Katherine Martorell, interregional travel permits may not be used to move in these places.
The authority also announced that as of this Friday, October 2 the curfew will be brought forward in the Magallanes Region. It will take effect at 8:00 p.m. and will end at 5:00 a.m.
The latter due to the fact that in that area there has been an increase in cases of coronavirus in recent weeks: they doubled in September. In Magallanes today there are 8,656 accumulated cases.
There are 1,526 active cases in the region, being the third with the most active cases behind Metropolitan 3,302 and Biobío with 1,737. In that line, Magallanes exceeds the Metropolitan in terms of the accumulated incidence rate (total cases per 100,000 inhabitants), with 4,758.3 versus 3,938.8.
On the other hand, during the balance, the authorities were consulted about a recommendation that the Covid-19 Advisory Council would have made regarding not making changes to the curfew until the impact on the level of contagions that it may have brought is clear. the celebration of the National Holidays.
“With regard to the impact of the September 18 festivities, we have seen that in recent days, except in some regions, we have seen an increase, but we have to wait until the weekend to see the real impact of the September 18 festivities“, He said.
“We have received the recommendations of the advisory council. In this sense, we know that the curfew has an important impact on reducing mobility, especially at a time when inspection becomes more difficult (…). We have analyzed the current situation in the commission together with the President and we have decided to maintain the curfew, not only for September 18, but we are looking at the measures we are taking day by day, “he added.
Consulted by the statements made a few days ago by the Minister of Economy, Lucas Palacios, around the fact that the government was studying shortening the curfew to support the gastronomic sector, Daza assured that “At this time, according to what we have evaluated from the point of view of the evolution of the pandemic, we have decided to maintain the curfew for the next few weeks.”
