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The Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, took a nosedive against Public Space, after the last report from the study center where he points out that the current values of positivity could be lowered “artificially”.
In the usual report on the progress of Covid-19 in Chile, the Secretary of State was consulted in this regard and downplayed the analysis, referring to its authors as “academics in quotation marks” and said that their views represent an “insult” for officials Of the health.
“This accusation that is covered under the cloak of a study center and an academic center seems very serious to me. It is impossible that there are stimuli – I do not know of what types, I hope they clarified it – that allow artificially lower the percentage of PCR results ”, the Secretary of State began by pointing out.
Paris added that “here there are clubs because you row and clubs because you do not row, if the PCR goes down they claim, if the PCR goes up they claim.” “Here there is a very serious accusation against the primary health system, against the municipalities, against the personnel who work taking the tests. Can you imagine that they are going to be paying you, encouraging only healthy people to take the tests? This accusation has to be made before the courts and I challenge this center to make the accusation, ”she said.
The minister insisted that “this is unacceptable. We accept the criticism, when I took office, I did it as a dialogue minister and convener, but when these limits are reached of accusing that the figures are being artificially lowered by means of stimulating people, I find it already outside the limit ”.
The report carried out by researchers Camila Gómez, Catalina Gómez, Eduardo Engel, Diego Pardow and Pablo Simonetti, points out that “it is clear that the current values of positivity (defined as the fraction of PCR tests carried out that are positive) are much lower than those reached by Chile in the worst moments, when in mid-June the weekly averages nationwide reached 33%. However, the values that are being reported in recent weeks could be artificially low, since there are incentives to test people with a low probability of being infected“.
This is not the first time that Paris has been outraged by the study center. In August the minister criticized the concept of “Russian roulette” used by the entity in one of its analyzes. “Talking about Russian roulette is an unscientific and not very serious term. Secretary of State criticized that they are given” aggressive or derogatory nicknames about the work that this Ministry of Health does, “he said. At the beginning of September, another report from the entity responded. noting that it has a “series of inaccuracies.”
Figures update
Regarding the balance on Covid-19 in the country, the undersecretary of Healthcare Networks, Arturo Zúñiga reported 1,372 new infections and 24 deaths in the last 24 hours.
As for the infected, the undersecretary Zúñiga detailed that 1016 of them are with symptoms, 325 asymptomatic and another 31 not notified.
With this update, the number of total infected since the beginning of the pandemic amounts to 449,903, and the deaths amount to 12,345. There are also 12,393 active cases.
At the beginning of the report, Minister Paris stressed that “eight regions have decreased their cases in the last 14 days. In any case, we are concerned about Magallanes and we have a Minsal team supporting since Monday.”
On the other hand, the Undersecretary of Assistance Networks, Paula Daza explained the scope of the permit for interregional travel. In this regard, she said that this permit will apply to communes that are in phases 3, 4 and 5 of the Step by Step Plan. “Permission from the Virtual Police Station and Health Passport will be required.”
New measures
Meanwhile, the Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, Katherine Martorell explained that in the Metropolitan Region, the communes of Quinta Normal, La Pintana, Buin, Lo Prado, Cerro Navia, Conchalí, Puente Alto and Lo Espejo will advance to Transition as of Monday .
Also in the RM, they pass to Preparation Calera de Tango, Til Til, Talagante, Lo Barnechea, Central Station, Peñalolén, Padre Hurtado, Pedro Aguirre Cerda, Lampa, Isla de Maipo, Santiago and Quilicura.
In the Region of Antofagasta, the communes of Mejillones and Antofagasta will also advance to Transition, as will Lanco and Panguipulli in Los Ríos; La Serena and Coquimbo (Coquimbo); Linares (Maule); La Cruz (Valparaíso) and Pozo Almonte (Tarapacá).
Finally, in the Aysén Region, the Coyhaique commune goes into quarantine, the same as Ercilla Lonquimay and Teodoro Schmidt in La Araucanía.
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