translated from Spanish: [VIDEO] Government presented gradual deconfining plan “Step by Step”: “These five weeks of improvement allows us to start a new stage”

During the afternoon of this Sunday and from La Moneda, the government presented the gradual deconfining plan “Step by Step”, which will begin to be valid from today. It was the president, Sebastián Piñera, who led the announcement, indicating that it is an initiative that includes five stages: quarantine, transition, preparation, initial opening and advanced opening. Each of these classifications will be implemented depending on the conditions of each commune or region.” These five weeks of improvement allows us today to start a new stage, and look more hopefully at the future. This stage has been called Step by Step. This plan, which will be cautiously, prudently, collecting the recommendations of science, WHO, the Advisory Council, will be implemented gradually and flexibly, always listening to communities and always picking up with attention the reality of each commune and region,” the representative said. In the instance, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, supplemented the information, adding that “the communes will be able to move forward or backward from one phase to another, according to three epidemiological indicators”, which add to the responsiveness of the care network and the traceability of cases. The content of the document, as explained by The Under-Secretary of Health Paula Daza, indicates in detail how gradual decon confinement will be applied in the territories. “It’s a simple plan. every stage is going to have restrictions and obligations,” he said. First, he noted that the first step is “quarantine”, maximum restriction, where people have “22 restrictions and a ban on mobilization”. Beyond this point and depending on the evolution of contagions, progress could be made to the “transition” stage, where the degree of confinement is reduced, but avoids abrupt openness to minimize the risks of contagion.” We have to keep the measures very strict and very controlled. During this period quarantine will be lifted on weekdays, and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays are maintained,” Daza said, adding that social gatherings will be restricted to no more than 10 people. “If we do well, if the number of cases decreases,” he said, the third “preparation” step can be applied. “It is what many communes are now un quarantined, the 22 restrictions are maintained and health standards are respected.” To improve the scenario, the authority indicated that “we can continue to move forward” to the point of an “initial opening”, a scenario where the Aysén and Los Ríos Region is already located. In this step, some restrictions such as the operation of restaurants, cafes and some sports activities may be lifted. “Under strict protocols, ” he argued. While the last stage goes through the “advanced opening”, where the number of cases must be “quite smaller”, Added Daza. “But we’re going to have to be much more rigorous,” he argued, as greater freedoms will be allowed, such as increasing the capacity of activities.

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