He Mayor of Calama, Daniel Agusto, He made a desperate call to the government to close the commune’s airport as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“The Calama airport is a slaughterhouse! Do you want to reduce mobility and contagion? So let’s take off the blindfold, please close the Calama airport, now! (sic) ”, he regretted through his Twitter account.
Look at how the passengers are glued next to each other inside the plane, this is indeed a herd contagion, a herd on the way to the slaughterhouse! pic.twitter.com/8SlDPFLWwA
– Daniel Agusto (@DanielCalama) June 26, 2020
Agusto has insisted in different media that the airport is a “focus of contagion” due to the constant traffic of people, especially workers who work in mining tasks.
“Even though some flights have been reduced, the crowds continue to number in the thousands during shift changes,” he added.
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