Covid-19: Juiz de Fora goes to Onda Vermelha starting next Monday | Wood zone



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Juiz de Fora will go to the Onda Vermelha of the state program “Conscious Mines” starting next Monday (7). The decision was made during a meeting of the Coronavirus Confrontation Committee held on Thursday (3).

According to the City Council, a decree with the new rules for this period will be published on Saturday (5). The Committee will meet again for a new evaluation next Thursday (10).

The phase is the most restrictive of the Minas Gerais Government program.

In the weekly update of the plan, published this Wednesday (2), the Southeast macro-region remained in Onda Amarela, as well as the micro Juiz de Fora. If the waves indicated for the macro and micro regions are different, it will be up to each mayor of each city to choose which of the two recommendations to follow.

However, depending on the State, the municipality may be more restrictive with respect to the measures determined in the phases. The following activities are allowed in Onda Vermelha, according to the update of the website “Minas Consciente” this Thursday.

  • farming
  • Foods
  • Banks and insurance
  • Production chain and essential ancillary activities
  • Construction and related
  • Factory, energy, extraction, production, steel and related
  • Health
  • Telecommunications, communication and press
  • Transport, vehicles and mail
  • Water, wastewater and waste treatment
  • Hotels and similar
  • Legal, administrative and accounting activities
  • Higher education (only practical classes for public health courses)

According to the City Council Management Panel, 302 people were admitted to the city’s public and private hospitals due to the disease on Thursday. Of this total, 113 patients occupy beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and 189 are in wards. This Wednesday, the number was 334; the largest since March.

Since October, Juiz de Fora has been registering an increase in hospitalizations for Covid-19. To find out what measures have been or have been taken due to the increasing number, G1 is he MG2 contacted the City Council and the city’s health units.

In an interview with TV integrationThe Undersecretary of Health Clorivaldo Rocha commented on the current situation of increase of Covid-19 in the municipality.

“We have figures much higher than the peak we experienced in July. It is difficult to say that it is a new wave or peak, but what we have today is the greater number of infected people and cases of hospitalizations per day than we had previously. This turns on a yellow light, close to a red one ”, he warned.

The evolution of cases of the new coronavirus in Juiz de Fora is monitored through the Municipal Bulletin updated by the City Council. There are almost 10,000 positive results since the beginning of the pandemic.

In the last 24 hours alone, 483 new cases of Covid-19 were confirmed in the municipality. The data from Thursday (3) point to a new record of confirmations in one day, the last had been 274 on November 23.

In the same period, three more deaths were recorded in Juiz de Fora. In all, there are 336 people who lost their lives due to the disease. Every Tuesday the City Council updates the number of people who have already recovered from the disease: today there are 8,841.

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