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After the end of the quarantine was announced for Puente Alto, which was in confinement for more than 170 days, the mayor of Renca, Claudio Castro (former DC), showed his indignation for being the only commune of Greater Santiago in which he will continue governing this measure.
Through a thread posted on his Twitter account, the mayor expressed his disagreement. “Does this measure make sense? Not only do we believe not, but also, as we have previously denounced, it generates perverse incentives that affect testing and traceability,” Castro wrote.
To justify the above, the communal chief stressed that “de according to the Epidemiological Report of the Ministry of Health, the last week Renca leads in N ° of PCR tests per inhabitant in Greater Santiago: + 16% than the second that tests the most, + 76% than the average of Santiago and + 141% than those that test the least “.
“We have been testing for several weeks well above the regional average. This thanks to Centinela Renca, our aggressive testing system, intensive traceability and isolation. It has involved great resources that we have assumed from the Municipality of Renca, “he said.
In this sense, Castro stressed that “thanks to the active – aggressive – search in the field, out of every 10 neighbors with positive PCR, 6 are asymptomatic”, which, in the opinion of the mayor, “is very good.”
“If we did not do it, our active incidence rate would be much lower and we would have gone to Step 2. Here you can see the perverse incentive,” said Castro.
Also, for the mayor of Renca, in quarantine “cases do not drop, it is not audited, it is not complied with … BUT it prevents people from going to work.” “In meeting with experts from the Covid-19 Advisory Council They assured us that deconfining Greater Santiago by communes has NOT been recommended by them, “he said.
Finally, the communal authority directly summoned La Moneda, arguing that “the Government is abusing the instrument of quarantine in our city, and will not have the legitimacy to use it again in the event of a regrowth.”
“Finally, since the Government it insists on its strategy and does not allow our neighbors to work, we demand a social support plan for more than 40 thousand households that have been living without income for five months and view the decisions made at the central level with anguish, “he closed.
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