[Economics]Capacity limitations, prohibition of dances, processions and burning of puppets in public areas, among restrictive measures for Christmas and New Year's Eve

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According to government authorities, there is an increase in cases and mortality associated with the coronavirus.

 

QUITO (07-12-2021) .- The national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) is made up of various Executive entities, including the Ministry of Public Health. Alfredo Cárdenas / THE UNIVERSE.
The national Emergency Operations Committee (COE) went from exhorting to requiring decentralized autonomous governments (GADs) to apply, in their territories, measures requested by the Ministry of Health, for the Christmas and Old Year festivities.
Juan Zapata, president of the national COE, said that they are concerned about what may happen on the holidays regarding the health situation.

José Ruales, deputy minister of Governance and Health Surveillance of the Ministry of Public Health , reported that in the last four weeks there has been a slight increase in the number of cases. They went from 1,294 weekly cases to 2,918.
Ruales argued that this increase has occurred especially in the provinces of Pichincha, Guayas, Manabí and El Oro and as a whole po[CENSORED]tion, the new cases occur in those in which there are lower vaccination rates such as Morona Santiago, Napo, Cañar and Cotopaxi.

Regarding mortality for Ruales, there is no significant increase, while the positivity has gone from 4.3%, to 12.5% and 15.4%.
After a meeting of the national COE, the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, raised capacity limitations as follows:
- 50% in convention centers for dinners, corporate lunches, reception rooms, restaurants, bars, discotheques and the like, tolerance centers, with a mandatory two-dose vaccination certificate and compliance with biosecurity measures.
- 75% in markets, supermarkets , with compliance with biosafety measures; shopping centers, religious centers , fairs, with presentation of a vaccination certificate with two doses from the age of 12, compliance with biosafety measures; beaches with hours of use from 06:00 to 18:00.
In public spaces, events such as concerts, children's passes, processions, novenas, festivals of old years or burns, po[CENSORED]r festivals, are prohibited .
The sale and consumption of alcohol in public spaces is prohibited.

He asked citizens to attend the vaccination points to get vaccinated against COVID-19.

 

Zapata indicated that the measures would take effect on Friday, December 17, and until Monday, January 3.
“We are going to forget the word exhortation, there is a higher good that we have to take care of, which is the health and life of Ecuadorians and today we demand that on the basis of their competencies (the Gad's) comply with these guidelines of this resolution of the national COE ”, expressed Zapata.
He mentioned that as of December 17, the police will not issue permits for public events but those who obtained them before will be able to do so.
According to Zapata, in addition to the fact that no permits will be issued, the Police and the municipalities will carry out controls through operations.
The official added that no vehicle restrictions have been generated in the national axes and trunk lines, so there will be free mobility.
In a radio interview, Zapata recalled that last year a state of exception was applied with which there was mobility restriction to avoid extended family reunions, which he indicated was an oxygen in January 2021.