translated from Spanish: Piñera assured that the return to classes “will be when the highest point has passed”

“We are reaching a stage where the number of infected people is very similar, to the number of new recovered. What this means, that we are very close to reaching the peak, what is called the peak in terms of number of sick people,” President Sebastián Piñera said, during an interview with the morning “Welcome”. At the time, the Mandate addressed the health crisis by the coronavirus and after being consulted on the so-called “new normal”, insisted that “the last thing we want to do is create false trusts, nor triumphless triumphants.” “We’re not saying that the new normal is going to be now, we’re preparing so that when the safe return time comes we’re well prepared, so we’re working on a plan for safe return,” he said. And about the concerns that might exist, Piñera insisted that “we can responsibly say that every person who needs health care is going to have it, who needs hospitalization is going to have it, who needs critical bed is going to have it, that needs mechanical respirator will have it. And that cannot be said by even the great powers of the world.” On the other hand, he also addressed the return to school, stating that “no child is going back to school if we cannot ensure that the sanitary, protective conditions will be”, adding that this return could “start to occur during the month of May, but if we want it to occur during the month of May, we have to start preparing now (…) the safe return is not now, it will be when the highest point has passed.”

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