[Minuto a Minuto] Four southern communes fell back to quarantine and two others to transition

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| The United States reached this Friday the figure of 7,027,910 confirmed cases of Covid and 203,571 deaths, according to the independent count of Johns Hopkins University #CooperativaEnCasa

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| China reported today 15 new cases of Covid detected on Friday, all of them from abroad, with which the Asian country has already accumulated 41 days without registering contacts at the local level #CooperativaEnCasa

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| Peru, the country with the highest mortality rate in the world due to Covid, exceeded 32,000 deaths this Friday and is close to 800,000 cases #CooperativaEnCasa

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| Diego Vergara, mayor of Paine, one of the two metropolitan municipalities that will remain under quarantine from Monday: “The neighboring commune of Buin has a significant percentage of services and, when released, they will all go there”

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| Mayor of Lonquimay and the beginning of the quarantine: “The numbers rule. It is a necessary measure that has negative consequences, mainly in the workplace, but health has to be on those situations” #CooperativaEnCasa

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| “Unfortunately we have had a significant number of infections in the last two weeks: 60,” said Nibaldo Alegría, mayor of Lonquimay, who tonight fell back to quarantine #CooperativaEnCasa

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| At 11:00 p.m., Lanco and Panguipulli went back to the #CooperativaEnCasa Transition stage

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| At 11:00 pm, four southern communes went back to quarantine: Ercilla, Lonquimay and Teodoro Schmidt, in La Araucanía; and Coyhaique, in Aysén #CooperativaEnCasa

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| Mayor of Paine, who goes into quarantine, Diego Vergara: “The neighboring commune that is Buin has a significant percentage of services for Paine and when Buin is released they will all go there”

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| Mayor of Lonquimay, who enters quarantine, Nibaldo Alegría: “Unfortunately we have had a significant number of infections in the last two weeks: 60 infections. The numbers are in order, a necessary measure, which obviously has negative consequences”

11:46 –

| Secretary of the Medical College: The controversy between Public Space and Minister Paris did not make much sense of substance; and it was not understood, or the minister did not want to understand, what the study center raised about the active search #CooperativaEnCasa

11:44 –

| “The most probable thing is that we are seeing the effects of ’18’, but in line with the administrative problems that exist on holidays and long weekends,” says José Miguel Bernucci, national secretary of the Medical College #CooperativaEnCasa

11:43 –

| 37,600 PCR tests were reported, reaching a total of 3,150,848 at the country level to date.

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| Meanwhile, the positivity rate for the last 24 hours is 6.2%

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| In the last 24 hours, 58 deaths were registered due to causes associated with Covid-19. The total number of deceased amounts to 12,527 in the country.

11:42 –

| National Secretary of the College maintains that the increase in the number of new cases is not a sign of an increase in infections caused by National Holidays: “Not at all” #CooperativaEnCasa

11:41 –

| The Ministry of Health confirmed a total of 2,222 infections that occurred in the last 24 hours, the highest number since last July 25.

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| [En vivo] The national secretary of the Medical College, José Miguel Bernucci, talks to Una Nueva Mañana after the highest number of new infections in two months #CooperativaEnCasa https://www.cooperativa.cl/radioenvivo/

07:38 –

| Coyhaique falls from Preparation to Quarantine

07:37 –

| The Ministry of Health announced that Covid-19 reports will now be made on Monday, Thursday and Saturday

07:36 –

| The communes of Lonquimay, Ercilla, Teodoro Schmidt and Coyhaique begin the total quarantine this Friday after the increase in cases in these areas.