8:20 a.m .: Chile not so great
In the early days, Chile was considered a model in Latin America in the management of the coronavirus pandemic, with “only” 16,000 infections and 230 deaths at the end of April. A month later, the numbers were almost tenfold: the South American country of 18 million people now has 140,000 cases of contamination and more than 2,200 deaths. “There have been two very large blindnesses on the part of the government that have affected the infection curve,” said Maria Soledad Barria, director of a health department at the University of Chile. “First, the government has not anticipated or recognized the deep inequalities in our country. Secondly, we have not seen the interest in working on first aid “in order to centralize the strategy for monitoring the contagion, analyzes the ex-Minister of Health under the first mandate of the left president Michelle Bachelet.
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