Features
Impact of the Pandemic on Disaster Management
Marcelo Medina Chief Engineer of the National Sub-Department for Road Maintenance by Direct Administration Road Administration – Ministry of Public Works (Chile); Spanish-speaking Secretary of PIARC Technical Committee 1.5 Disaster Management
In March 2020, the first COVID-19 cases started to appear in Chile. This unknown disease from afar had reached the country, which was already in a state of great social and political instability.
On 18 March, a State of Catastrophe1 was decreed throughout the national territory for 90 days. This status was subsequently extended to 180, 270 and 360 days. As a result of the above, the country remains under a curfew and restrictions on international, interregional and inter-district mobility through the use of sanitary cordons.
- First big wave
- Second big wave (first half of 2021)
- Disasters in Chile during the pandemic
- Effects on the emergency response stage
- Effects on emergency information
- SIEMOP emergency information system
- Coordination of key stakeholders
- Digitalisation and the digital transformation process
- Final comments
- References