During this day, the Ministry of Health announced that the entire Metropolitan Region will advance to its initial opening with phase 4 for this Wednesday, March 2 from 5:00 am -right at the start of face-to-face classes- which will allow the resumption of activities of lesser risk of contagion, minimizing crowds.
With this phase, face-to-face classes will be mandatory for schoolchildren, while higher education is allowed. Capacity will be limited for meetings in private residences with a maximum of 20 people, and fifty with Mobility Passes. In face-to-face attention to the public, a maximum of 5 clients will be allowed. And for restaurants, cafes and soda fountains, only in closed spaces will entry with a pass be allowed, among other measures.
Regions such as Arica, Tarapacá and Antofagasta, the last remaining communes, will also advance to initial opening, while the Coquimbo and Valparaíso Regions advance to phase 3 completely. In the south, progress was also seen in the communes of the Region of La Araucanía, Los Ríos, Los Lagos and Aysén.
In relation to the cases, Minsal reported a drop in infections at the national level, which lowered the threshold of 30,000 cases and in turn exceeded 3 million infected in the two years of the pandemic. For more information and the calendar of the vaccination system in minsal.cl
