Coronavirus: Chile To Introduce Controversial Certificate
Source: BBC News
Chile's government has said it will go ahead with a controversial plan to issue certificates to people who have recovered from Covid-19. The documents would be given to people to allow them to return to work, Deputy Health Minister Paula Daza said.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is "no evidence" that people who contract coronavirus are immune from being infected again. The body said "immunity" certificates could help the virus spread.
Chile has reported 189 virus-related deaths and more than 13,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. *Don't issue virus 'immunity passports', WHO says *Double warning over virus antibody tests
"There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection," the WHO said in a briefing note on Friday. The body argued that so-called "immunity certificates" could even be harmful, because they could lead people to ignore public health advice and therefore increase the risk of transmitting the disease...
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Today however, Minister Daza told reporters: "One of the things that we know is that a person who has had the illness has a lower probability of becoming ill again."
Ms Daza added that the certificates would not confirm that people had immunity to Covid-19, but rather state that they had recovered from the disease and had completed a period of isolation.
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Then it's a 'recovery certificate' or passport...
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Trump's old pal Mauricio Macri, a man who stole over $300 million from the postal service and then ran a meat-packing plant into the ground by taking around $1 billion in debts on tis credit and pocketing the proceeds (the 'Machir' scandal)...
is the same guy who, as president, loaded the always-financially unstable Argentina with over $100 billion in foreign debt in just two years to finance his friends' dollarizing of assets and subsequent capital flight.
He was defeated last year for re-election - leaving his successor to struggle with not only the current Covid crisis; but a debt crisis as well.
A little like what Bush left Obama - but much worse, and in already-struggling country that can't print dollars to paper over bad debts.
Piñera and Macri, as you can imagine, were quite fond of each other.
"I understand they're making a remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
"Callate..."
