Chile contemplates a five-step plan to revive the country
President Sebastián Piñera presented the "Step by Step" strategy which includes different levels of reactivation, after five weeks of improvement
Chilean President Sebastián Piñera presented the de-escalation plan called “Paso a Paso” (Step by Step), to gradually reactivate the country after “five weeks of improvement”.
“These five weeks of improvement allow us to start a new stage and look with more hope at the future. We have named this stage Step by Step. This plan, which will be applied cautiously, prudently, taking into account the recommendations from the WHO, the Advisory Council, will be applied gradually and flexibly, always listening to the communities and always carefully collecting the reality of each commune and region”, said the Chilean president.
He also highlighted the positive evolution of the availability of mechanical respirators, which “is growing”, also thanking the work of the 360,000 health workers, as well as the Minister of Health, Enrique Paris and the undersecretaries.
The plan has five stages: Quarantine, with limited mobility; Transition, in which the degree of confinement decreases; Preparation, where the quarantine is lifted for the general population, with the exception of risk groups; Initial Opening, in which certain lower risk activities are resumed, minimizing crowds; and Advanced opening, where activity is increased, but maintaining self-care measures.
According to the fulfillment of the sanitary criteria, each commune or region “will be able to take steps forward in this process of lack of control, but also, if conditions make it necessary, they will have to go back to previous steps,” Piñera said.
K. Tovar
Source: CNN
