translated from Spanish: Mañalich: “Quarantines, which are extreme measures, have to be targeted”

The Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, referred to the complaints of the mayors whose communes were not included in the quarantines decreed yesterday by the government, after the authority determined to add El Bosque, a sector of San Bernardo and the urban radio of Arica.
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In conversation with Radio DNA, the secretary of state stated that “they are measures that may sound good and may be very long in places where there are residences that live five people in 300 square meters, but sound very bad and cause enormous damage in places where, in 80 square meters, ten people live, which is the most typical reality of our country.”
“In communes that have been quarantined, Chillán, for example, mayors have already changed their minds, because people suffer, starve, increase domestic violence, other infections occur within the home (…) quarantines, which are extreme measures, have to be targeted and have a beginning and an end, according to epidemiological reality,” the Health Minister added.
Mañalich added that “when certain mayors ask for total quarantines of their entire commune, and to say of the whole city or the whole country, they do not know the damage they are talking about and that it would produce this measure in their population.”

Original source in Spanish