The Chilean authorities shut down a mall in downtown Santiago on Monday morning after hundreds of people crowded into the precinct to buy merchandise to sell, just hours after a lockdown for the area was eased.
A trader puts up a tape to control the access to his store as a commercial area opens, while some local town halls are allowed to ease the lockdown restrictions, during the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Santiago, Chile, August 17, 2020. The banners read 'Maximum entry of 2 people' and 'Mandatory use of mask.' REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado
The mall is situated in the capital’s Central Station, a low-income area popular with informal workers and migrants, where a strict lockdown over the past three months was eased on Monday morning. The reopening of Central Station, along with the adjoining Central Santiago which hosts government offices and business headquarters, passed off largely uneventfully, albeit with larger concentrations of people in reopened shops and on public transport.Felipe Alessandri, the Santiago mayor, said some stores had offered “irresistible” sales that had attracted shoppers from across the capital’s province. He warned that short-term thinking would see the quarantine reinstated.
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