07.05.2022
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During the morning of this Saturday, the Minister of HealthBegoña Yarza, the minister of education Marco Antonio Avilathe undersecretary of Public Health, Christopher Square and the mayor of Independencia, Gonzalo Duranled the ‘Get up to date’ activity that seeks to reinforce vaccination within schools.
The authorities came to Mirador Viejo Park to reinforce the vaccination campaign for the winter against COVID-19 and also against influenza, which is sought to be carried out in public places and during weekends to facilitate access to families. Recreational and sports activities available to all types of audiences will be carried out at these vaccination points.
In this sense, Minister Yarza maintained that regarding the latter “there are groups further behind” just as they are pregnant women for influenza and preschool children between 3 to 5 years of age for coronavirus. Similarly, he pointed out that “adolescents have set the example” in terms of vaccination against Sars-COV-2.
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For his part, Minister Ávila indicated that it is essential to understand that “the pandemic is not over” and that “boys and girls are immunized is the only thing that will allow us to maintain presence in the establishments”.
On this last point, the head of the Ministry of Education also referred to the different acts of violence recorded in schools throughout Chile, noting that “We have seen these days the negative externalities of not attending for so long in the pandemic. We want to avoid this and for that we need children and adolescents to be vaccinated.”
Venue shots in the MR
On this last point, the authority was consulted by the different demonstrations and seizures of establishments registered in the Metropolitan regionwhere students demand infrastructure improvements and an increase in teachers.
In this regard Ávila said that “the educational system is made up of 12,500 establishments nationwide. Of those, today we are concentrated in less than 10 establishments”.
“We have always said that the Ministry of Education, although it is not the supporter and responsible for the management of the establishments, we are a bridge to be able to establish dialogue between students. This has happened, for example, in Barros Arana, in the same way it will happen in Barros Borgoño next week,” the minister assured.
Similarly, he stressed that “We will always be a support for dialogue.”
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Regarding the acts of violence during the demonstrations, the head of the portfolio indicated that “the establishments They have internal regulations that allow them to establish sanctions when events occur that are outside the regulatory frameworks. or school coexistence”.
In the same vein, he emphasized that “Outside of the establishments, these are public safety events that we believe should be treated as such.”
Increase in cases of COVID-19
For his part, the undersecretary of Public Health, Cristóbal Cuadrado, referred to the increase in cases of COVID-19 registering a rise of 23% in the last week.
The authority explained that there is an increase in these cases in the regions of Antofagasta, Metropolitan, Aysén and Los Ríos.
In the same way, he said that “it is known that the viral circulation has cycles in which we are having increases, the last important one was that of Omicron during January and February, and after which we have had a sustained drop, which It hit a bottom over the last couple of weeks and now we’re starting to see some signs of an increase.”
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Regarding this situation, the authority recalled that it could generate Step-by-Step Plan Changesnoting that “it is important that the territories go back from the low-impact Green Phase to the medium-impact yellow phase,” anticipating that This Tuesday the changes in the matter will be announced.
He also anticipated that to promote vaccination will seek to implement changes in the Mobility Passindicating that “in the future we We hope that the fourth dose as an element to keep it current”emphasizing that “we need to have good coverage thinking about winter. There are vaccines and many points available.”
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