translated from Spanish: Spokesman Bellolio: “There is a pandemic fatigue (…) but that doesn’t mean quarantines don’t work.”

Government Spokesman Jaime Bellolio referred to the criticism that the announcements have received in the step-by-step plan where the Metropolitan region should go into total quarantine this Saturday and said that there is a “fatigue” of people but that “does not mean that the quarantines do not work.” Bellolio asserted that “the perception in some cases may be correct, but in others not, in fact, the data show that when there are quarantines, mobility can go down between 26%, 30%, 35%, it is less than in the first moments of quarantine, obviously, because there is a pandemic fatigue, we understand it, but that does not mean that quarantines do not work.” And what the different international experiences have also said is that especially in the most urban sectors such as cities they do work, they have a repayment effect, they are not immediate (…) but this is also a matter of individual responsibility”, he added, In his opinion, the spokesman for La Moneda pointed out that “nobody can look favourably on returning to a quarantine. , nobody wants it, we as a Government have been more than 13 months, almost 14 months already in a pandemic that has meant a lot of pain for many people and it is the elderly who have also been locked up the longest, hence the mobility pass that was so important (…) For now we can not relax the measures, because we still have high cases, the only reason that justifies doing a quarantine is the sanitary, we are up to the limit in the ICU beds, we need people to take care of themselves, not only them but everyone else.” That is the reason why we have made quarantines, but at the same time that we have done those quarantines, we have also made very important social aid so that they can be fulfilled well, for example, the universal IFE”, he closed.

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