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Given the increase in cases of coronavirus, the Ministry of Health (Minsal) announced last Thursday new setbacks within the framework of the Step by Step Plan, which began to take effect as of this Saturday at 5:00 in the morning.
In this way, since this morning Paihuano (Coquimbo); Papudo, Catemu, Santo Domingo and Quintero (Valparaíso); Codegua (O’Higgins); Río Claro, Pelarco, Romeral, Cauquenes, Hualañé, Constitución and Longaví (Maule); Cover (Ñuble); Birth (Biobío); New Imperial (The Araucanía); Conchamó, Chonchi and Dalcahue (Los Lagos) had to go back to the first phase, that is, total confinement.
With this -and after the Metropolitan Region was kept in quarantine-, a 86.6% of the population is under this measure.
But there were also other modifications, from today Marchihue (O’Higgins) and Portezuelo (Ñuble) They should have gone back to the second step: Transition. This implies that the quarantine applies on weekends and holidays.
In addition, on the occasion of the long weekend of Easter, the government also reported that they would be established sanitary cords in the Metropolitan Region of Valparaíso, in Greater Concepción and in the communes of Temuco and Padre Las Casas. These were installed at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday and They will run until Sunday the 4th at 10pm.
On the other hand, the authority also reported From this Monday, April 5, new restrictions will be implemented in view of the worrying evolution of the pandemic, among them, advance the curfew at 9:00 p.m. and the closing of borders.
