COVID-19 pandemic in Chile

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Chile on March 2020. 

 there is a COVID-19 outbreak in Chile. The country passed a thousand confirmed cases on 25 March 2020.

First cases
On 3 March, The Minister of Public Health confirmed the first case of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in Chile, thus making the country the fifth in Latin America to report such an instance after Brazil, Mexico, Ecuador and Argentina.

The next day, two more cases were confirmed.

Responses
On 13 March, President Sebastián Piñera announced a ban on public events with more than 500 people, as the government tries to control the spread of coronavirus. A week later, he announced a state emergency.

References

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