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The small town of Santo Domingo is located on the Chilean South Pacific coast and has around 7,400 inhabitants.
According to the Daily Mail, ten people are said to have met here for a forbidden ceremony.
A cat owner invited to throw a birthday party for her pet.
According to the authorities, the reckless cat owner is considered a so-called patient zero.
So she was the first to fall ill in the Valparaíso region.
The result: All party guests became infected.
In addition, five other people from the hostess's friends and family infected her with Covid-19.
Aerial view of Santo Domingo.
The place is about 1.5 hours by car from the capital Santiago de Chile
Source: Getty Images / 500px / Agustín Valenzuela
Bad joke?
Francisco Álvarez is Secretary of the Ministry of Health for the Valaparaíso Region.
He had to confirm the corona outbreak in the coastal community in mid-January and initially could not believe the cause of the outbreak.
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"When I heard that it was a birthday party for a cat, I thought it was a joke," Álvarez told local radio station Radio Bio-Bio.
His first guess was: "Probably someone is trying to cover up something."
But then the official made a public statement announcing that at least six of the 15 infected people admitted to having attended this illegal cat party.
Source: Getty Images / Image presented by courtesy of Eric Lee AKA EricMoMo.
The cat is fine
It is unclear when exactly the party took place, but the cat is healthy and has not become infected, Álvarez said.
The health ministry official still finds it hard to believe that despite all warnings from the authorities, people continued to hold meetings.
More illegal parties
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Álvarez reported on Twitter about other illegal parties in his region.
Only recently, the police had to break up a gathering of 60 people who were frolicking around a campfire on El Canelo beach.
30 beach party guests were able to flee from the access, it was said on Radio Cooperativa.
The police also took action against an illegal birthday party in the municipality of Algarrobo.
20 people were arrested.
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"We have said this over and over again in every respect and emphasized: If people want to meet, then only in strict compliance with the security regulations," the British Daily Mail quoted him as saying.
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The 38-year-old knows the potentially fatal corona risk very well.
He became infected last May and, according to his own account, was on the "threshold of death".
Here is the Twitter message that Álvarez had to be hospitalized:
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, more than 703,000 people in the South American Republic of Chile have been infected with the virus - around 18,000 have died from it, reports the John Hopkin's Coronavirus Research Center.