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Everything will be decided at the meeting on January 4, the “key date”, they say in the government. And it is that the projection of a second helloFaced with the arrival of summer and vacations for the residents of the capital, they gave an alert signal to the authority: the complexity of decreeing measures that have legitimacy and validity.
An alert was what happened in Punta Arenas, when the restaurants opened despite being in quarantine, or the forced lifting of the sanitary customs in the Route 68, between Santiago and Valparaíso, due to the traffic jams that occurred on December 23 and despite the prohibition of interregional travel.
In this context, yesterday, at the meeting prior to the Covid-19 balance, the President Sebastián Piñera asked the Ministries of Health and the Interior to present modifications to the Step by Step plan, that combine health measures with the summer period, something outlined by the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza. “What we have learned is to give people certainty regarding the timing of the various restrictive measures. Prolonged quarantines of months and months reduce the effect on mobility, ”said Daza, who also addressed the possibility of allowing outdoor sports activities in phases that imply weekend confinement.
However, what is sought – according to those who knew details of the meeting – are more global modifications, how to delimit the duration of future quarantines and link them to “Goal” indicators that will allow to leave the confinement or advance in the opening.
Thus, an attempt is made to link the work of regional and communal governments to the phase in which each commune is, establishing, for example, a minimum of weekly PCR tests and active searches, to maintain good control of the pandemic. In addition, it has been thought to define and communicate incidence rates associated with each stage of the Step by Step plan, so that people understand the indicators that must be achieved in order to move from one level to another.
The interregional travel, for now, they are on hold. The government is waiting for the figures that will be reviewed on Monday to define whether part of the RM – or some blocks of communes – will pass to the Preparation stage, which would allow the departure of capital residents to different spas. Otherwise, it is also evaluated relax this prohibition, allowing mobility between regions, but with health passport, that is, the sworn statement that must be filled out with the personal history, which is checked against the Minsal registry and the reservoir of people who must be quarantined.
But it is not clear yet, since the last holidays decrease the test and do not allow to correctly visualize the progression of infections. Furthermore, the health portfolio was not inclined to give more mobility to communes with increasing infections.
For this thursday a new shipment from the laboratory is expected to arrive in Chile Pfizer-BioNTech with a little more than 10 thousand vaccines, which would allow completing the second dose of the first health officials inoculated 21 days after the first vaccination.
According to the latest Health balance, 8,649 officials had been vaccinated and 20 had minor adverse effects, such as pain in the arm or fever, while one technique had major complications, but they were controlled.
