page_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Chile
section_title: May
hierarchical_section_title: COVID-19 pandemic in Chile / Timeline / May
caption_attribution_description: English: The top countries with new covid infections are US Spain Italy Canada Germany United Kingdom Turkey This chart shows the total cases in relation to the size of the population
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in Chile is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Chile in March 2020. While initial cases had been imported from South East Asia and Europe, they expanded into a sizeable quantity of untraceable infections, placing the country within phase 4 of the pandemic as defined by the World Health Organization, and surpassing a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.
  The cases have concentrated in the Santiago metropolitan area, with outbreaks in other regions in the country. No national lockdown was established in Chile, unlike in neighbouring Argentina and Peru, although a night curfew was implemented throughout the country. Quarantines were established locally in different cities and neighborhoods. However, in May 2020, the whole city of Santiago was put under mandatory quarantine due to an increase of cases and similar situations were extended to most of the largest cities in Chile.
  As of 30 August 2020, Chile has the fourth largest number of cases in South America, after Brazil, Peru, and Colombia, and the ninth largest in the world.
context_section_description: 15 May 2020: Quarantine is extended to the entire Santiago Metropolitan area.
  28 May 2020: The Chilean government confirmed a total of 86,943 cases, surpassing the number of official cases recorded in China, the source of the pandemic.
caption: Cases per population in selected countries. Since May 2020, Chile became one of the countries with the largest numbers of infected people in the world.
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