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2020 in Chile
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January
- January 1 – Eye injury in the 2019–2020 Chilean protests: in two separate incidents two men were permanently blinded in one of their eyes as result of being hit by tear gas grenades shot by Chilean riot police.[1][2]
March
- March 21 – Ministry of Health reports its country's first COVID-19 death in an 83-year woman from Renca Santiago.[3]
- March 24 – Easter Island records its first case of COVID-19.[4]
- Late March: first puma sightings of 2020 in Santiago
April
- April 21 – Protests against the Chilean government in commemoration of the International Workers' Day are suppressed by the police, citing social distancing laws established due to the coronavirus pandemic.[5]
- April 28 – Bolivia and Chile agree on a deal to return home hundreds of Bolivian migrants stranded at a makeshift camp in Santiago. The migrants were transported to Iquique where they spent 14 days in quarantine before finally returning to Bolivia.[6]
May
June
- June 13
- More than 3,100 deaths are officially reported in the country. However, an investigation reported the Ministry of Health told the World Health Organization that the death toll reached 5,000 cases.[8]
- Enrique Paris replaces Jaime Mañalich as Minister for Health.[8]
October
- October 26 – Chilean citizens voted in a referendum to rewrite its constitution, with 78% of the nearly 7.5 million citizens who participated voting in favor of creating a new constitution.[9]
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