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The Undersecretary of Public Works Christopher Leturia discarded the statements of the Undersecretary of Public Health Paula Daza regarding the temporary lifting of sanitary cords and stated that “it is not the first time that it is taken, it is probably not the last time ”.
After the events that marked the night of last Thursday, when the Intendancy ordered the temporary lifting of the sanitary cordon installed on Route 5 South in the Paine Highway Tenure, Undersecretary Daza assured that “This will not happen again.”
Even so, Undersecretary Leturia indicated that Carabineros “He has all the powers to be able to apply the law according to his criteria of what is happening at the moment.”
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He also exemplified that “of the number of vehicles there were many were trucks that have cargo and they have no problem going through sanitary cords or buses that were checked ”.
Meanwhile, he declared that “Conditions will be evaluated by the Carabineros officers ”.
On the other hand, from the Ministry of Transport, Paula Flores, head of inspection, called on citizens to “be responsible, if you don’t have to travel, stay home.”
Historical number of infections
This Friday, Chile registered a new record in new infections during the last 24 hours.
The Minister of Health Enrique Paris reported 8,112 new cases of COVID-19. Of these, 5,348 correspond to symptomatic people and 2,184 do not present symptoms. In addition, 580 Positive PCR tests were recorded that were not reported.
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The total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 in the country reaches 1,011,485. Of that total, 45,202 patients are in the active stage. The recovered cases are 942,413.
Regarding deaths, according to the information provided by the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), in the last 24 hours there were 93 deaths due to causes associated with COVID-19. The total number of deaths amounted to 23,421 in the country.
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