The president of Colmed Valparaiso, Ignacio de la Torre, referred to the possible consequences that the advance of three communes in the region, including Viña del Mar, may bring to phase 3 of the Step by Step Plan.
“All the scientific world and the available evidence point to the fact that managing covid elimination is by far the best alternative to avoid illness, death, suffering for so many people and a faster recovery of the economy,” he began by telling ADN radio.
Along these lines, the specialist said that “we are concerned about the loss of an opportunity to intensify measures with the aim of lowering infection rates intensely, enhancing what is already happening in recent weeks and thus allowing the ICUs to become decongested, hospitals to stop having admissions due to COVID and the number of deaths to decrease.”
Regarding the announcements, he said that “unfortunately the announcements, which coincide with the winter holidays, suggest that accompanied by the mobility permit we will have a high migration of people from the Metropolitan Region to other regions of the country, as already happened in the summer and we already know that film.”
Moreover, he warned that in the Valparaiso Region there could be “a considerable increase in cases, in part due to risky behaviors and increased mobility in the agglomerations produced by tourist permits.”
“Instead of taking advantage of this effort to bring covid as close to zero as possible, we are relaxing the measures massively at a time when we are all tired and where logically if the measures are relaxed, people will most likely use what permits are available to travel,” he said.
