With intense control, the quarantine began in five communes of Greater Concepción, a work that the authority develops with the support of the Army and the Carabineros. The health measure was decreed as a result of the rise in infections by covid-19, something that if not improved could lead to the quarantine of the entire Province.
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More than 24 hours from the start of the quarantine During this weekend, the most accurate evaluation is that there is indeed a decrease in the movement of people on the streets of Concepción, Hualpén, Talcahuano, Penco and Tomé, with a traffic flow also down, unlike what could be a normal Saturday.
Unlike the first quarantines in April in San Pedro de la Paz and Hualpén, where there were sanitary cords that prevented people from leaving their homes and their communes, this time the barriers are only a few, as the emphasis has been on mobile patrol controls.
The intendant Sergio Giacaman He stressed that this quarantine leaves people the responsibility to comply with the measure and that if they do not do so, that is, leave without safe conduct or open non-essential commercial premises, they risk arrest for putting public health at risk.
The weekend confinement for Concepción, Talcahuano and Hualpén, and total for Penco and Tomé was decreed from the increase of infections by Coronavirus in the Bío Bío, which leads the national statistics together with the Metropolitan Region, mainly due to outbreaks that in 72 percent are domiciliary.
It is a transition stage, explained the Minister of Health, Hector Muñoz, warning that if the figures do not improve, that is, if there is no drop in infections, a total quarantine could be decreed throughout the intercommunal or province of Concepción.
The authorities’ early assessment of compliance with the sanitary measure was positive, with half a dozen business premises closed and almost 60 people arrested for not carrying a safe conduct.
It should be noted that in recent days, the Bío Bío region has remained well above 200 new confirmed daily cases of infections by Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes covid-19, being one of the areas of greatest concern at the national level.
