IN PICS: Life under Lockdown in Chile
Chile sees anxiety and uncertainty among the country’s poorest as the coronavirus is spreading rapidly among more vulnerable communities, especially in the outskirts of Chilean…
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Valparaiso: Santiago’s playground gets more beds amid call for quarantine
Marcelo Montecinos/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – It’s no wonder that Santiago’s favorite beach destination, Valparaiso Region, has Chile’s second-highest cases of Covid-19; most Chileans…
931 detained in Chile for not respecting COVID-19 curfew
SANTIAGO – Carabineros de Chile reported Sunday that 931 people were detained nationwide for not respecting the curfew. The police report lists 823 offenders in…
Chile accelerates delivery of food baskets as COVID-19 cases approach 95,000
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Chile’s Ministry of Health on Saturday reported a total of 4,220 new daily cases in the last 24…
Chile to transfer lockdown violators to sanitary residences, ‘even with public force’
SANTIAGO – Chile’s Health Minister Jaime Mañalich on Friday complained that “the monitoring of quarantine measures is not being satisfactory” in the country, adding that…
Chile reaches new peak of deaths from coronavirus
SANTIAGO – Chile has extended the quarantine measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19 in the capital Santiago and the metropolitan area for another week…
COVID-9: Chile extends lockdown in 41 communes for another week
SANTIAGO – The quarantine measures to counteract the spread of COVID-19 in Chile have been extended for another week as the total number of coronavirus…
Meet Juanita – the oldest patient in Chile to recover from Covid-19
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – A 111-year-old Chilean woman has made a full recovery from the novel coronavirus, according to government officials. Juana…
Chile records highest number of coronavirus deaths in a day
Ross Brown/The Santiago Times Staff SANTIAGO – Chile on Thursday reported that 49 people have died from coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours –…
Chile opens special residences as COVID-19 tally reaches 82,289
SANTIAGO – The total number of coronavirus cases in Chile reached 82,289, the government said Wednesday, while 841 people have died from the disease. President…