Total quarantine in Chile due to increase in covid cases

Daza explained that “people who are in quarantined communes can go and vote and go home” and said “there are no social gatherings” after the vote.

The official indicated during the daily report that, despite the fact that in recent weeks there has been a “stabilization of cases” of Covid-19 at the national level, in the metropolitan region of Santiago de Chile and in O’Higgins, an increase in infections has been reported.

So from Saturday June 12, they will go into total isolation, or quarantine, more than 7 million people living in the 52 municipalities (districts) of the capital.

Chile has seen an increase in daily cases in recent weeks. This Thursday reported 7,716 new infections and 198 people died from Covid-19, which leaves the country with a cumulative total of 1,453,478 patients and 30,339 deaths since the start of the pandemic.

The metropolitan region of Santiago, the most densely populated in the country, continues to lead the positivity rate, above the national average, with 12% and also records a 98% occupancy of beds in the intensive care unit (ICU). .

At present, 3,266 people are hospitalized in intensive care, including 2,798 under assisted ventilation, according to the undersecretary of health networks, Alberto Dougnac.

The measurement is given in days when Chile prepares to vaccinate children aged 12 to 17, for which a new contract was signed with the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer for the purchase of four million doses.

The Institute of Public Health of Chile (ISP) on Thursday authorized the emergency use for people over 18 years of the single-dose vaccine Janssen, developed by the pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson.

Along with the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, there will be five approved in Chile to fight the pandemic: Pfizer, Sinovac, AstraZeneca, CanSino and Janssen.