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The Government ruled out this Sunday to implement a mandatory quarantine throughout the Metropolitan Region, which is home to the capital, while the second wave of the pandemic deepens throughout the country.
“Every Monday and Thursday the Covid-19 table reviews the different indicators that are what make the communes to enter quarantine, leave them or change steps. The Metropolitan Region is the second region with the lowest incidence in the entire country; therefore, there is no reason that could justify the quarantine of the entire region“, assured the spokesman minister, Jaime Bellolio, according to slogan Third.
“Nevertheless, It is possible that, when reviewing tomorrow’s data, some of the communes within the Metropolitan Region may indeed have some change“, qualified the government spokesman.
The health authorities reported this Sunday that, For the third consecutive day, more than 5,000 new infections by Covid-19 were detected throughout the country Y 28,557 infected people are in the active stage of the disease, the highest number since July.
Since last November, Chile has presented an increase in new cases coinciding with the development of the summer season, when the Government issued more than 4 million “vacation permits” that facilitated interregional transfers.
With a 8.1 percent positivity rate nationwide and an expansion of the epidemic that worries the authorities, large cities in the south of the country are in total quarantine and about half of the Metropolitan Region (about 3.5 million people) remain confined during the weekends.
To the date, 75 percent of the Chilean population is under some restrictive quarantine measure to contain the advance of the coronavirus.
