translated from Spanish: Government orders curfew throughout Chile between 22:00 and 05:00

The Executive established that from today, there will be a curfew throughout the national territory from 22.00 hrs to 5 am the next day. “People have to be at home and thus decrease social contacts.” This was the main announcement of a dozen made this day by the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, in the middle of a package of measures to combat the risks of coronavirus contagion, which until this Sunday add up to 632 cases. Positive cases that do not comply with quarantine or have limitations in complying with it at home may be admitted to an appropriate enclosure even with the use of force. Strict police and military control in the communes of Providencia, Las Condes and Vitacura, the most relevant focus of coronavirus expansion in the country. A “mandatory quarantine will also be imposed for any resident alien or compatriot who arrives in Chile, whatever their origin, wherever they come from”. It “prohibits transit to second holiday homes in all places where there is high density”, announced the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich.Therefore the “return to their places of origin, to their first home, to all people, to all people, is instructed have gone out to these holiday spots, many of them towards the central coast and the Coquimbo Region,” Mañalich added.

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