they organized a clandestine party in a test center against Covid-19

Chilevisión’s central news broadcaster said last night that the police broke into a clinical laboratory in the town of Providencia, in the capital, and detained 29 employees of the Tested company for organizing a clandestine party, in which in more than violating quarantine, they didn’t. None of the precautions indicated by the government were observed, such as social distancing and the use of face masks.

The lab, located across from a hospital, is dedicated to processing and analyzing PCR tests that are performed by thousands of Chileans every day to determine whether or not they are infected with Covid-19..

In the clandestine party, organized by the person who ran the laboratory, the employees ate and drank alcohol without respecting any of the preventive measures, according to the TV channel, citing Carabineros.

The second wave of the pandemic hit Chile with much more force than the first, according to an analysis published today by the local press which pointed out that the deaths linked to Covid-19 until last Thursday already represent more than half of the deaths. same cause in 2020.

According to figures from the Department of Health Statistics and Information (DEIS), since March 22, 2020, when the first death from coronavirus was recorded, more than 33,000 have died from Covi-19 or the consequences derived from this disease.

The newspaper also pointed out that last month was the second deadliest since the start of the pandemic.