Ten communes, from five regions, enter quarantine on Friday



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The Government announced this Wednesday that, starting at 11:00 pm on Friday, 10 communes in the country will enter quarantine.

These are distributed in five regions of the country and are Vallenar (Atacama Region), Paine (Metropolitan region), Molina, San Clemente, Longaví in its urban area (Maule), Colonel, San Pedro de la Paz, Lota (Biobío), Porvenir and Puerto Natales (Magallanes Region).

The announcement was made in the middle of the televised report on the situation of the epidemic in Chile, in which it was reported that Next Monday, the communes of Isla de Maipo, Quilicura and San Bernardo leave quarantine, while The Queen You will advance from Phase 2, “Transition” to Phase 3, “Preparation.”

On the occasion, Minister Enrique Paris highlighted the “clear decrease in daily cases” nationwide in recent weeks, but admitted that “positivity increased to 7.2 percent, due to the high positivity of Magellan, which raises the average”.

He also said to look with “concern” what is happening in La Florida, Melipilla and Rancagua.

In contrast, he welcomed the “very positive evolution” of the control of the cases in Pudahuel, Talagante, Padre Hurtado and Titil, “who have made great efforts.”

The National Holidays measures do not “correspond to reality”, according to an expert

Regarding the measures implemented for the National Holidays, Tania Herrera, an expert in Public Health at the Diego Portales University, recommended that citizens follow the “basic message” about the virus, and not the last ones that “they do not correspond to reality“.

“The basic message of the sanitary measures that the population has to take has to persist for a long time, because communication messages have been given that later do not correspond to reality“, he claimed.

The call to calm before the interruption of vaccines

Following the announcement by Oxford and AstraZeneca of the interruption of clinical trials of the vaccine against Covid-19, the director of the Millennium Institute in Immunology and member of the council for the vaccine in Chile, Alexis Kalergis, assured that this it will not affect the processes and work carried out in the country.

“We are very well, we have already completed the formulation of the four prototypes, in particular two of them are already in pre-clinical with good results, and we hope by the end of the year to choose one to be able to scar it“, ad.



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