'Total' lockdown for Chile capital after virus spike

[Judi Lynn]

Issued on: 13/05/2020 - 19:10
Modified: 13/05/2020 - 19:07



A man walks past a pharmacy where COVID-19 tests are conducted in Santiago, Chile MARTIN BERNETTI AFP
Santiago (AFP)

Chile's government ordered a mandatory total quarantine for the capital Santiago on Wednesday after a 60 percent spike in coronavirus infections in the previous 24 hours.

"The most severe measure I must announce is a total quarantine in Greater Santiago," home to 80 percent of the country's 34,000-plus infections, Health Minister Jaime Manalich said.

Manalich said the lockdown -- including in several areas where earlier confinement measures had been lifted -- was necessary after 2,260 new infections and 12 deaths in the last 24 hours.

Chile had until now opted for a selective quarantine strategy in dealing with the pandemic, limiting the measures to areas with high incidence of infection.

More:
https://www.france24.com/en/20200513-total-lockdown-for-chile-capital-after-virus-spike

[samsingh]

1. this would suggest that the repug run states are sentencing their citizens to death.