translated from Spanish: RM intendant prepares for eventual closure of Santiago for long weekend

Metropolitan Mayor Felipe Guevara indicated that if the health authorities make a determination to close the exit of Santiago for the next long weekend, they are ready to do so.” We are prepared to take such a measure (health cord) if instructed by the health authority. That is, if the advisory team that Minister Mañalich and the Government decide to close Santiago as in Easter, we are in a position to do so without any inconvenience”, assured radio Cooperativa.In the case of being decreed, people who need to go or leave Santiago for justified reasons, whether work or other, will be allowed. For his part, the mayor of the Valparaíso Region, Jorge Martínez, explained that “a plan was designed for Easter that has been modeled in Chile… and that plan will be kept going forward and not just for the first of May.” The plan, he explained, has “19 health checks on all access routes to the region,” which will restrict the entry of tourists. The mayor of Viña del Mar, Virginia Reginato, called for staying in their homes and disagreed with the normality approach that has enste between the authorities.” I am concerned that the concept of new normality is confusing people, I think that here we should not be confused, things are clear, we are living in a critical situation and we are close to a new long weekend that does not mean that we have to go on vacation… we have to keep looking after us and keep going into our homes,” he said.

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