At 05:00 hours this Thursday The entire Metropolitan Region, to which Santiago belongs, returned to phase two of the “Step by Step plan“due to an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases, which the weekend quarantines will return in addition to other respective measures.
This measure brings back the individual permits that are acquired in the Virtual Police Station. As reported by Carabineros, the number of people confined on weekends will rise from 1,200,000 to 11 million.
The capital, which with seven million inhabitants was on the brink of sanitary collapse in June and July, had been in the throes of the epidemic for three months and the economy gradually opened up for the start of the summer holidays that begin in December.
With the regression of Santiago to phase two, transfers between regions and movement during weekends and holidays are prohibited, as well as the opening of non-essential businesses during quarantine days.
However, exceptionally, Yes, the opening of the restaurants will be allowed during the week but only on the terraces, reported the Undersecretary of Crime Prevention, Katherine Martorell.
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WHAT DOES THE TRANSITION STAGE CONSIST OF?
- The communes in transition have freedom of movement from Monday to Friday, however, the weekends are under quarantine for which there is only one individual weekly permit.
- Following a change in regulations, now in phase two can keep restaurants and cafes open that have terraces and ensuring a distance of at least two meters away. There you can maintain a maximum stay of two hours. Of course, the operation is prohibited on weekends
- Non-essential commerce may not open on weekends and holidays.
- Transfer to non-habitual residences and other regions is prohibited.
- I know prohibits the operation of gyms and the realization of sports activities in closed places or that is required to leave the house on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. They can’t work either cinemas, theaters, pubs, discos and analogous places.
- Too It is forbidden to carry out and participate in events, social gatherings and recreational, trades, rites, seminars and ceremonies with more people than allowed and any event throughout the day on weekends and holidays.
- Schools may remain open because it is going backwards in the plan and it is not a breakthrough from quarantine.
SOCHIMU ASKS FOR CITIZENSHIP HELP TO AVOID A DISASTER
The doctor Luis Enberg, president of the Chilean Society of Emergency Medicine (Sochimu), did in urged call on the population to maintain all precautionary and security measures to avoid new infections.
“It is important that people understand that if we return to have a significant increase like the one we had in June or we behave as Europe has behaved, we are going to face a serious health problem and we will not have all the means to treat them“warned the doctor.
“In the first peak, all the emergency services were working at maximum capacity, having to handle very serious patients in the emergency room for several days, being that it is not the ideal place, and also the health teams ended up completely exhausted. That also it caused an overload in the rest of the colleagues “, recalled the doctor.
MOBILITY
In the prelude to the start of phase two in Santiago, Leonardo Basso, director of the Institute of Complex Engineering Systems (ISCI) of the University of Chile, showed cautious about the loss of mobility that the measure will entail.
The expert recalled that when mobility fell the most in Santiago and regions was last March, the month that the coronavirus outbreak began, hand in hand with the closure of schools and universities, but then “fatigue began to appear in all regions: mobility was relaxing despite the measures that were working. “
“Confinement measures in no part of Chile – with the exception of the eastern sector of the Metropolitan Region – achieved not even remotely the decrease in mobility that was initially expected. (Compared to) quarantines in Italy, which initially decreased by 80 percent mobility, we were always in the order of 35 or 40 percent, which was observed throughout Chile, “he added.
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