translated from Spanish: Minister Paris for possible changes to the Step-by-Step plan: “The figures are quite encouraging”

On Monday, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, was consulted during a press point in La Serena, on any changes to the Paso a Paso Plan, due to the increase in coronavirus cases during the last few weeks. While it did not provide details on specific changes in communes or regions, it went ahead that the data were analyzed during the morning with President Sebastián Piñera. In this regard, he clarified that “fortunately at the national level and also at the level of the Metropolitan Region the figures are quite encouraging.” For the communes to change phases are not only considered the increase of patients, says the PCR, the positivity, which at the currently metropolitan level is 4% and nationally is 7%,” he added. And in this same line, he settled that “when we were at the peak of the pandemic, June, July, the positivity was 40% and we did 20 thousand exams a day and now we have come to do 60 thousand daily examsParis was also consulted on the holiday permit, indicating that any change in this regard will be analyzed as well as the deconfining plan.” If we cancel the holiday permit, the people who live off it (…) you have to think about that. It’s a difficult balance,” he argued, referencing tourism.

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