Contingency minute – June 25, 2020
New cases: 4.648
Total infected: 259.064 Overview as Deaths 172/ Total 4.903 of June 25 Tests performed: 17.446/ Total: 1.025.081
New quarantines in 5 communes: from this Friday at 10 PM, Quillota, Graneros, Calera de Tango, El Monte and Talagante will be included. The current quarantines are renewed for one more week. Besides, sanitary barriers will be applied for long weekends in Santiago, Gran Concepción and Valparaíso, from Friday at 6pm until Monday at 10pm.
Chile exceeds one million tests: Subsecretary of Assistance Networks, Arturo Zúñiga, reported that the capacity of daily tests was increased to 23 thousand.
The University of Washington projects 25,000 deaths in October: the peak of active cases in Chile would be in mid-August with around 106,000 (in the worst scenario with restrictions lifted), while the peak of daily deaths would be July 16 with 406 (if restrictions and protection measures are maintained).
Clinics in the Metropolitan Region report a drop-in testing demands: a decrease of up to 50% in some facilities. (La Tercera).
The virus' rate of infection fell to its lowest level: according to analyses by the Universidad de Chile, Universidad del Desarrollo and Federico Santa María. (El Mercurio).
Government presents a project for caregivers of preschool children in pandemic: mothers or fathers with children up to 7 years old will be able to access the Employment Protection Act. Furthermore, for workers with post-natal leave or leave that expires during the pandemic, an additional increase of 5% in the benefit and a guaranteed monthly flat of $ 300,000 is contemplated.
President of the TC appealed to branches of government to "respect the Constitution": in the middle of the struggle between the Government and Congress over the admissibility of bills. Four of the ten ministers criticized the timeliness and relevance of a public statement.
Debate grows over early retirement from pension funds: The Chamber of Deputies asked the President to sponsor an initiative to allow the withdrawal of up to 150 UF from individual accounts. Finance Minister said it is a "bad idea".
Public expense will reach its highest level in 30 years: it will reach 28.7% of GDP, after growth of 11.4% in 2020.
The mining sector operates with nearly 50% of its workforce: according to data from the Sonami, more than 90,000 workers do not attend work in response to health measures adopted by the industry.
Workers with suspended contracts reach 646,121: 104,226 applications have been entered, according to the latest report from the Superintendence of Pensions. The trade sector has the highest number of suspensions (150,130).
Strong recovery in pension funds A and B: they experienced profits of 5.75% and 4.57%, respectively, recovering up to 73% of what was lost due to the pandemic. Fund C had a positive variation of 3.22%, D of 1.84% and E of 0.54%.
Government postpones deadline for technical review: it will now take place between September and December. Regarding patents, almost 1 million people have not yet paid the fee postponed to June.
International
World Health 9.129.146 infected (135.212 new cases) worldwide and a total of 473.797 deaths Organization (4.187 in the last 24 hours). (WHO):
Johns Hopkins 9.453.673 infected in 188 countries, with 482.923 deaths. The United States is the University1 country with the most confirmed cases (2.381.369), followed by Brazil (1.188.631) and Russia (613.148).
The IMF forecasts a 9.4% drop in the Latin American and Caribbean economy: globally it estimates a drop of 4.9%. The recovery in global activity would be 5.4% in 2021.
The U.S. and Europe are working to resume flights between them. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said they will resolve this " over the next few weeks".
Latin America exceeds 100,000 deaths per Covid-19: while contagion reaches 2.16 million people.
WHO compliments Spain: for "rapid" control of coronavirus outbreaks, but warns that Europe continues to report nearly 20,000 cases daily. (El País).
Eiffel Tower reopens to the public: after three months of closure, the longest period since World War II.
Central Bank of Brazil reduces to -6.4% GDP projection for 2020: by effect of Covid-19.
1 The data is obtained from the site: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html. Here, the information is constantly updated. The numbers reported are from a review at 8:30 a.m. today.
Daily agenda and activities
● 09:00: Digital Government and Ministries of Finance and Segpres, lead two-day seminar "OECD Recommendations #Digital Transformation in Chile". Ministers Ignacio Briones and Claudio Alvarado and OECD Secretary General Jeffrey Schlagenhauf will open the seminar.
● 09:00: Centro UC de Estudios Internacionales presents the talk "Covid-19: The case of New Zealand". Presented by Matthew O'Meagher from Victoria University of Wellington.
● 09:00: Virtual talk "Women and Work: the challenge of multiple conciliation", organized by the OTIC of the Chilean Chamber of Construction. Participates the Subsecretary of Women's Affairs, Carolina Cuevas.
● 10:00: Minister of Social Development meets with beneficiaries of the new Emergency Family Income. After the conversation, he will hold a press conference with the Subsecretaries of Social Evaluation and Social Welfare.
● 10:00: Icare talk "What comes next: 3 ministers, 3 views, 3 conversations for a new development of the region". Participants include former Finance Ministers of Peru, Claudia Cooper; Argentina, Alfonso Prat-Gay; and Chile, Andrés Velasco; and the Chilean Ambassador to Argentina, Nicolás Monckeberg.
● 10:00: Synthon Laboratory holds seminar "Quality from the beginning: from design to bioequivalence". Experts in the area talk about the importance of bioequivalence.
● 12:30: Seremi de Salud de la Región Metropolitana meets with directors of the Chilean Association of Gastronomy to learn about protocols and coordinate measures to prevent Covid-19 in restaurants with delivery.
● 13:00: Minister of Public Works delivers national balance sheet on the water situation of rivers and reservoirs.
● 14:00: The Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities holds its ordinary session N° 614. The executive vice-president, Juan Manuel Zolezzi, will talk about the most relevant issues.
● 15:00: Minister of Agriculture addresses central points of the meeting he will hold with FAO representative, Julio Berdegué, and ECLAC executive secretary, Alicia Bárcena, on Chile's food security and measures implemented to avoid food losses.
● 19:00: Chile 21 presents a discussion on "Bases for the Tax Discussion in Chile". Participants include the former President, Ricardo Lagos; the Rector of the University of Chile, Ennio Vivaldi; the President of the Association of Entrepreneurs of Chile, Alejandra Mustakis; the former Senator
Carlos Ominami; the Dean of FEN of the University of Chile, José de Gregorio; and the Executive Director of the Fiscal Observatory Foundation, Jeannette von Wolfersdorff.
Legislative activity
Senate
Important commissions ● Economy will analyse a project that establishes measures to encourage consumer rights (Bulletin 12409). (09:30 a 11:30).
● Treasury will receive a report on the increase of the Fogape's capital and the temporary relaxation of its requirements; and will discuss a project that modifies laws with the purpose of preventing the good functioning of the financial market (Bulletin 13564). (10:00 a 13:00).
● Recursos Hídricos will continue to study the project that empowers the President to reserve the priority use of water for human consumption, sanitation and domestic use (Bulletin 13404). (10:00 a 12:00).
● Fisheries will address the project that prohibits trawling for common hake (Bulletins 13019 and 12937). (10:00 a 11:30).
● Environment will continue to study the project that establishes the Framework Law on Climate Change (Bulletin 13191). (12:00 a 14:00).
● Health and Challenges of the Future will meet to receive information and exchange opinions on the impacts in Chile by Covid-19. (12:00 a 14:00).
● Mixed Commission regarding the Bill on Pharmaceuticals 2 (Bulletin 9914). (17:00 a 18:30).
Chamber of Deputies
Important commissions
● Constitution will discuss a project that sanctions those who increase the price of certain goods in the context of a pandemic (Bulletin 13424) and a project that enshrines unforeseen events as an exception to payment and contractual compliance (Bulletin 13348). (10:00 a 12:30).
● Covid-19 researcher will receive the Minister of Health, the head of the Department of Statistics and Health Information, the Minister of Science and Technology, the president of the Chilean Society of Epidemiology and the Subsecretary of Social Evaluation. (14:30 a 16:30).
● Government and Constitution united will see a project that establishes a new protection statute in favor of the denouncer of acts against administrative probity (Bulletin 13565). (15:30 a 17:00).
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