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The government plans to announce this Sunday the lifting of the preventive quarantine for those over 75, measure to be effective starting next Wednesday, September 2. In March, it had been ordered that the elderly could not go out, in order to avoid getting the coronavirus.
The announcement, which will be made by the minister Enrique Paris, and the First Lady will attend as a guest, Cecilia Morel, is that this group of the population, which amounts to 1,017,950 inhabitants, you can leave without restrictions in the communes that are in Transition stage, like the rest of the inhabitants. WhileOlder adults residing in confinement areas will be able to circulate on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays, for two hours, as planned for all people so far.
Within the government, it is stated that the role of Morel, who heads the program, was key in the decision “Better Adult”. In fact, Morel had appointments with experts in this field such as the Chilean Geriatric Society and, in addition, he participated in several massive meetings, through Zoom, with 200 older adults and organizations that watch over their rights. There, they made it clear that, although the quarantine was justified at the beginning of the pandemic, today they feel discriminated against by the decision. She also discussed the quarantine situation with the Undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, and the director of the National Service for the Elderly, Octavio Vergara.
The president of that Society, Gerardo Fasce, He pointed out that as the months passed, the confinement “brought more harm than good.” “There are problems such as injuries and delays in consultations for various pathologies. In mental health, there are affective and cognitive impacts “he added. He added that the recommendations for this age group are to maintain personal protection measures such as the use of masks, in addition to social distancing. This, taking into account that the group most affected by Covid-19 is the elderly: 6,961 deaths from the infection are over 70 years old.
The former national prosecutor, the lawyer Guillermo Piedrabuena, who together with a group of elderly lawyers filed a protection appeal to have the measure lifted –action that was declared inadmissible by the Santiago Court of Appeals-, held that “Many people in the public and private sector who are 75 years old and over, need to go out to work as is my case, that I have an office.”
Lawyer, Hernan Bosselin, who was part of the appeal, considered that “Quarantine is discriminatory and arbitrary, since after several months, people deprived of mobility see their immune systems affected.” He added that they filed a Replenishment resource ante, so that if the confinement is not lifted, the Supreme will review it.
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