“In our country we can see that the sacrifice of the people is beginning to pay off. So the most important thing is to maintain the tendency to detect, trace and isolate “, This Sunday, the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris, pointed out, highlighting the drop in infections by Covid-19 in the Metropolitan Region.
The health authority attributed this progress to compliance with sanitary measures, such as quarantine, by the bulk of the population.
“The evolution shows an enormous effort and great sacrifice of the families, it is showing very positive results, since there is a decrease in new cases, a quite significant drop”, affirmed the secretary of state.
In any case, he insisted that victory cannot be claimed, since there is concern about the O’Higgins Region, “where the curve shows a permanent rise, which forced us to increase measures that restrict mobility “, incorporating the quarantined Rancagua, Machalí and Graneros.
RECORD RISE OF PERMITS: “THAT IS THE REAL THING”
On the figure delivered this day by Carabineros, regarding more than a million temporary permits and safe-conducts issued in the last 24 hours for travel in cities that are under quarantine, Paris dramatized.
“The automatic permits for certain displacements have been totally reduced. The figures we have now, and we consulted that with the undersecretary Katherine Martorell (of Crime Prevention), are the real numbers of people who obtain permission. ”
The head of the Minsal remarked “Before, there were practically twice as many permits, another million more, that circulated without obtaining the permit, since they used credentials, and that is now over”.
He also explained that “permits are a high number because there are 63 communes in quarantine and there are more than 9 million people in the country under that provision. “
CONFIRMED DEATHS IN THE WORLD
The minister also referred, to the more than 10 million people infected with coronavirus in the world, a figure that was reached this weekend.
“The most incredible thing is that in the last two weeks in some countries the increase in infections has been more than 65%. In a week there is an increase of contagions of a million people, which previously took months “, added.
