Undersecretary Valenzuela: “We haven’t thought about replenishing the quarantines yet. If necessary, we must move forward”

The Undersecretary of Public Health, María Teresa Valenzuela, addressed on Tuesday the situation of the pandemic in the country and the advance of the Ómicron variant. In this regard, he said that “we have not thought about replenishing the quarantines yet.”
“We haven’t thought about having the quarantines, yet. If necessary, progress should be made in the measures. But while we call for vaccination, to maintain the measures of concern,” said the undersecretary in conversation with CNN Chile.
“Our government has taken care to strengthen what vaccination has been. Very few countries can count on the reality of having vaccines. And this program has been a success and now a fourth dose is incorporated. And that is a scenario like the most positive that can occur to protect our population,” the health authority added.
Valenzuela also referred to the stragglers. “That has us very busy. There is the vaccine, the way to protect ourselves. (To the laggards) I make a special appeal that they can trust that we have a vaccine that has proven its effectiveness and safety,” he said.
“We have more than one million 100 thousand laggards of the booster dose. It is an arduous task for which we have worked in an intersectoral way, with tourism, work, interior, “continued the undersecretary.
On the Ómicron variant, he pointed out that although “it generates a milder picture than other variables such as the Delta generate, I would prefer that we lower the profile of nothing, that we maintain the self-care measures.”

Original source in Spanish