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Workers broke quarantine rules

Port workers in Punta Arenas were alerted by work that has carried out in the last 24 hours at the Arturo Prat dock aboard the 'Unzen'. After at least 16 people aboard the ship were tested psitive for COVID 19 and was quarantined by the health authority, awaiting the change of personnel, the port workers reported that on Aug 22 work was carried out on the ship with the gangway down on the quay, sparkling fear among the associates, as the necessary measures were not being taken to isolate the ship, and that the measures adopted by the authority were not being respected.. Allegedly maintenance work was carried out on the ship with workers from Punta Arenas.

Nine crew members suffering from Coronavirus

The 'Unzen', which had sailed in the direction of Magallanes and then wasredirected to Puerto Montt on June 28, 2020, as one of its crew members had to be transferred to the emergency service of the Puerto Aysén hospital. He presented symptoms associated with the coronavirus, was evaluated and was tested positive for Covid-19. Meanwhile eight crew members showed symptoms from Covid-19, out of a total of 70. The protocols to carry out an evacuation in the next few hours of the patients with symptoms through a sanitary corridor to a health center in Puerto Montt on July 2 have already been activated.