translated from Spanish: Minister of Health declared “The Battle of Santiago” in the face of the effects of the pandemic on the city

The Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, indicated the concern for the city of Santiago. This, as it is the city with the highest number of covid-19 contagions in the country. The health authority indicated that, of the new cases reported today, 1228, 81% corresponds to the Metropolitan Region. “The city of Santiago calls concern (…) What we have to say, and which was announced by the undersecretary, is that measures as strict as those indicated and ordered are not being respected,” said Mañalich,Abat.He added, that the mayor of Santiago, Felipe Alessandri, told him that “he told me that going through the city center is like there was no prevention measure. Open shopping malls, people on the street without a mask. Meiggs, in the eastern area that corresponds to the commune of Santiago, had open commerce. Crossing the Mapocho River, La Vega, it is completely crowded and unused, without estrangement.” “If we do not seriously, with all the energy, the battle of Santiago, the war against the Covid will be lost,” Mañalich said, in that same vein, announced that the audit will be tighter. “We will accentuate the role of the health authority that the law confers on us. Watch, sanction, close, pass fines in a volume we haven’t done so far. I point it out as a precaution for the commercial premises to close from this very moment on.”

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