translated from Spanish: Guilds reject new quarantine in the Metropolitan region stating that “it is not being efficient”

Several unions have criticized during the decision of the announcements made by the government within the framework of the “Step by step” plan that from Saturday the entire Metropolitan region will go into quarantine. The president of the National Chamber of Commerce (CNC), Ricardo Mewes, said that the announcement generates “a lot of concern”, because “it comes to be a new blow for commerce, tourism, restaurants and all those who had seen an option to be able to go trying to get out of this great crisis that has affected us deeply.” Without a doubt we will abide by what the authority says,” but he invited the authorities to “review the measures of the Step by Step Plan and also look at international experiences,” he added. For his part, the leader of Hoteliers of Chile, Alberto Pirola, maintained that “the quarantine is not being efficient.” It is not possible for hotels to be opening and closing, hiring and unlinking people. Our employees are distressed, upset, they can no longer survive and continue with this crisis” We need to work and to ensure the guarantee that we will be able to operate in a quiet way,” he added. Also the helmsman of the Chilean Association of Gastronomy, Máximo Picallo, said that “the quarantines have already lost all effectiveness, we had already seen that week that in the commune of Santiago, which had entered quarantine, mobility had only fallen by 10% and this is basically explained by the exhaustion of the restriction measures , people already know that it’s okay not to comply with them, only the formal sector does.” Restricting people’s mobility now in the way that you want to do, basically shutting down certain groups in the economy, has no effect. We believe that we must change the focus and what must be done is to encourage people vaccinated with the two doses and after 15 days can have greater mobility, and if we have to close or restrict the mobility of part of the population, that has to be precisely those who have not fulfilled their vaccination stage” Said.

Original source in Spanish