translated from Spanish: Morning’s “extraordinary meeting” with Piñera: “Decisions may be made”

The Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, noted that during tomorrow Sunday day he will hold an extraordinary meeting with President Sebastián Piñera, which analyzes measures based on the control of the pandemic and takes into account the available epidemiological data of each commune of the country. Mañalich stated in this regard that “As I have pointed out, we have reviewed the statistic of new cases, of current incidence, of active cases in MRI, and the numbers tend to be favorable as a trend, but with a high number of contagions yet” and added that “It is unlikely that until we have much more reassuring numbers, that particular commune or that type of commune , they can get out of isolation.” About the meeting with Piñera indicated that it will be “to define how data is evolving, not just in Santiago. Decisions may be made tomorrow or the ones we have to date may be maintained, I don’t want to anticipate it.” It also recalled that since the Undersecretariat for Crime Prevention, the control measures that are mainly done by the Armed Forces in support of the health authority have been tightened, so that “effectively, the number of people on the street, is reduced from 30% to 60%, and on the other hand, using the same measures, the number of people we have under control and monitoring , we can effectively manage to take it from 60% to 80%.” The secretary of state indicated that 60% is very low, because it involves many people infecting, which eventually results in “prolongation of quarantines with all the immense adverse effects that this measure has on families and, above all, for the most vulnerable”.

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