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Niterói will impose fines of R $ 180.00 to anyone who is circulating in the streets, beaches and public squares of the city, starting on Monday (11), when the period of emergency shutdown in the municipality This is what the Executive Message sent by the Mayor Rodrigo Neves (PDT), approved by the City Council, says this Thursday (7) at night.
The measure was taken after the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) recommended the urgent initiative in the Rio Metropolitan Region. County’. The measure, in principle, is valid from May 11 to 15 and can be extended until May 22, a date scheduled to end social isolation in the city.
According to the text, there will be a fine for those who do not comply with the sanitary administrative orders to restrict movement within the municipality. In fact, coercion can occur to prevent people from continuing to travel in large numbers in public spaces, given the risk of uncontrolled spread of Covid-19, according to the Message, causing a collapse in the public health system.
OR emergency shutdown The Municipal Guard will act in the exercise of police power, with the power to inspect and impose fines. However, the project does not define how the approach will be carried out. The violation of R $ 180 can still be doubled, in case of recurrence. According to the text, the amounts will be converted to the Municipal Health Fund to expand public beds for critically ill patients with the new coronavirus.
“We did educational work with people who were still on the streets as if we lived in a normal situation, which is not the case. For this reason, we will have an administrative fine, which will become the health fund, “said the mayor.
Who can?
The law stipulates that traffic in the city is authorized in the event of: commuting by the labor force, to go to health services or pharmacies, to buy food, as well as to go to establishments authorized to operate.
The new measure, however, does not annul the decree that establishes essential activities in the municipality. In this way, they continue to operate: markets and supermarkets, pharmacies, bakeries, pet stores, medical services and service stations. Another class that may continue to operate is that of restaurant delivery operators.
Approval
The call emergency shutdown it was inserted in the Agenda, this Thursday (7) and was approved in the first and second discussions, without the need for a gap (interval between discussions). In the last evaluation, the matter was consecrated with 13 votes yes, one no and one abstention.
Gradual resumption of trade.
Niterói Mayor Rodrigo Neves said Thursday night (7) that he expects the gradual resumption of economic activities to begin in May in the city.
According to Neves, a group with representatives from all classes of entrepreneurs has met with the municipal government to describe measures to minimize the impact of the coronavirus crisis, and within these plans the expectation is that even this month some activities will begin to return. to work. The mayor did not clarify what the first activities will be.
“We are structuring new measures aimed at companies. We will structure a plan for a gradual resumption, we will have to deal with this virus for months. But we need to resume new activities, “he concluded.
Posted at 7:45 p.m., updated at 8:30 p.m.
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