translated from Spanish: Jaime Mañalich: “I’m not in favour of keeping the curfew”

“This is a virus that has very seasonal behavior, that is, it is expected that the rate of infections during the winters will be much more important,” said former Health Minister Jaime Mañalich, analyzing the epidemiological situation that the country is living in. In this line, he raised his disagreement with keeping his curfew on CNN. “I’m not in favour of keeping the curfew. I even doubt the prudence of maintaining the State of Emergency,” he said. It is different from the need to maintain a very strict control of meetings where there are many people where distance is not respected, where there is in an apartment with 30 or 40 people, there is no mask, there is noise,” he added. He also replied that “health control” must remain in the hands of Carabineros and the Ministry of Health, “it must be focused on that risk and for that no curfew is needed.” On the other hand, in addition to referencing the effects of the Brazilian variant, the Secretary of State insisted that “the virus still has a very large space to, as is happening, infect people who are younger and younger who have not yet completed their vaccination doses”. In this sense, he was also consulted on the green card, indicating that in regions where numbers “are rising significantly (…) maybe it shouldn’t be implemented.”

Original source in Spanish