translated from Spanish: There will be “random checks”: Minsal aligns with the Prosecutor’s Office and supports a decision to criminally prosecute infected people who come to vote this Sunday

The Ministry of Health aligned with the warning made by National Prosecutor Jorge Abbott about criminally prosecuting those who come to vote in the plebiscite and appear as infected or violate an isolation rule.
“We have said this on countless occasions, although we have taken steps to ensure that people are going to vote massively, we too have reiterated on many occasions that both people who have given positive coronavirus and close contacts, which are now in isolation, must maintain it,” said Undersecretary of Assistance Networks Arturo Zúñiga this morning during the daily report of the pandemic.
Zúñiga said that in the Minsal they fully agree with what the Public Prosecutor’s Office has raised and added that the health authorities, that is, all seremis in each of the regions of the country, will carry out, in conjunction with Carabineros, “random checks” to, in the words of the undersecretary, “prevent people who today are in the Epivigila register as close contact or as a positive case , approach polling stations and avoid a risky situation for other voters.”
“there’s going to be a check 20 yards from the polling place, where people are randomly going to be selected to check if they’re in the base of people who need to keep quarantine. If these people are identified, they will not be allowed to enter the polling place,” Zúñiga said.
Let us remember that this Friday, national prosecutor Jorge Abbott gave the instruction to the regional prosecutors and the head of the Organized Crime Crime Unit, Mauricio Fernández, to criminally prosecute those who are infected with covid-19, come to vote in the plebiscite.

Original source in Spanish

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