22:05 | Santiago de Chile, set. 30 (Efe).
This midnight Chile ceased to be under the state of catastrophe decreed by the Government as a result of the pandemic, ending with the touch of It remains that it was imposed throughout the territory since March 202, while 895 new cases were detected this Thursday, the highest number in six weeks.
The change could be seen immediately in the main streets of Santiago, the capital of the South American country, where commerce extended its opening hours that remained restricted throughout the emergency.
“We make provisions to receive clients until the last minute. We hope that people will get used to the new schedules. It is assumed that the locomotion will work normally so people would not have problems to leave “, merchants pointed out to local media.
Executive Resolution
The Executive’s resolution came last Monday shortly after announcing the reopening of borders to the entry of vaccinated foreigners as of October 1, after several weeks registering a significant decrease in cases and a positivity rate that today stands at 1.3 %.
The state of catastrophe “was necessary to provide our country with greater and better tools to combat pande mia, by allowing restricting the freedom and mobility of people through measures such as quarantines, sanitary cords and a curfew, “said President Sebastián Piñera.
This state” allowed collaboration of the Armed Forces in the control and supervision of the exceptional measures that, as the Government, it had to adopt, “added the Dignitary.
No more quarantine
With this new scenario there will no longer be any more regional or communal quarantines throughout the country, although measures such as the isolation of positives will be maintained, close contacts, suspects and travelers, in addition to capacity limitations depending on the epidemiological situation.
To date, 1.6 million people infected by coronavirus have been detected in Chile and the number of deaths rises more than 45,000 people, considering confirmed and suspected cases, according to the Department of Statistics and Information of the Ministry of Health.
A total of 378 patients are currently hospitalized in intensive care units (ICU), 273 of them with mechanical ventilation support.
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Posted: 9/30/2021
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