Amid a sharp rise in positive cases of coronavirus with the Omicron variant and the announcement by the Ministry of Health about the new measures that will be taken to combat the pandemic, more than 1,200 people who entered Chile have not been contacted by the authorities. health authorities.
As stated Third, 7,054 travelers have tested positive in the tests applied in the international terminal, of which almost 1,300 have not been contacted by the Minsal, for which they have been reported in the traceability reports as “no answer” or “no answer” , and therefore they were not referred to the traceability center nor were inspectors sent to the field.
The Department of Epidemiology of the health authority has not been able to contact 5,167 of these cases in the first instance, so they were marked as “pending”, being referred to the Los Héroes Traceability Center and the regional seremias.
According to health officials, this would be explained because the Department of Epidemiology collaborates with the traceability of positive Covid-19 cases, but with the lifting of restrictions, the staff has been overwhelmed for such a task, where they would only have 10 workers per shift. In addition, many cases have been referred to the Los Héroes Traceability Center, where the same information is not handled as in the Health Seremi, which handles the tracer center.
