“Calama airport is a slaughterhouse!”were the words that the mayor wrote Daniel Agusto on Twitter, who begs the authorities to decree the closure of the place because he considers it as a focus of contagion by COVID-19 in the commune.
In conversation with CNN Chile, the communal chief went deeper into his sayings and He assured that “the situation in Calama is extremely serious.”
“Although the undersecretary (Arturo Zúñiga) has indicated that the number of passengers has decreased, I can assure you that in the shift changes there continues to be a terrible agglomeration of people. That is a herd contagion, but a herd that goes to the slaughterhouse“He stressed.
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Actually, the city adds 3,665 infections and as of this Saturday 75 deaths were reported. Therefore, the authority emphasizes the closure of the airport for 14 days and that it is only enabled for the transport of air cargo, supplies and supplies.
“There are people who are dying at home, on the road, in the emergency room, because ultimately: the system collapsed”, said. He also added that the central government has not taken the necessary measures, being one of the areas most affected by the pandemic in the north.
Agusto referred to the situation in mining sectors and confirmed that the fifth worker in the field died yesterday and that incipient outbreaks are taking place in some tasks because of the coronavirus.
“Sometimes there is an economic view, nature considerations to privilege production to the detriment of people’s lives”, indicated the RN militant.
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