The Centro de Estudios Espacio Público published a report on the situation of the covid-19 pandemic in Greater Santiago, warning that the Government is playing the game. “Russian roulette”, just when the process of de-refining begins.
The report indicates that the Metropolitan region has registered the lowest contagion averages in recent months in the last week, but that these numbers from the Minsal have a delay of between 10 and 12 days with respect to the date of onset of symptoms.
But the numbers of infections by date of onset of symptoms stopped falling in the last week, according to iCOVID-Chile, a pandemic monitoring platform implemented by the Universidad Católica, Universidad de Chile and Universidad de Concepción.
“The Minsal data indicate a much greater drop than the iCOVID-Chile data (14% vs. 5%). Even more worrying is that In the last week available with data for onset of symptoms, infections in MRI increased 2.5% ”, Public Space alert.
In addition, the study center explains that the current infection rates are far from having the pandemic under control and that Chile does not know where it is in the face of the pandemic.
“Where we are? We do not know (…) The path the government has followed is equivalent to playing Russian roulette with bullets on at least two of the reels (spaces) of the revolver ”, he concludes.
Plebiscite
In your report, Public space It also shows concern about the holding of the plebiscite on October 25 and the implementation of sanitary measures to be carried out by the Servel.
“A source of concern is that the behavior of the Servel suggest has not yet assumed the responsibility that corresponds to ensure a plebiscite that invites participation without risk, despite the fact that there are possibly regions with high levels of contagion,” the report indicates.
Highlighting the case of South Korea, that carried out elections taking sanitary measures, such as putting alcohol gel dispensers in voting centers, the mandatory use of masks, in addition to reinforcing voting by mail. Measures that France copied in the second round of the municipal elections.
“To date we have not found evidence indicating adverse health consequences, although the level of abstentionism was similar to that of the first round,” they maintain.
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