Justice orders the suspension of non-essential activities in Amazonas for 15 days | Amazon

OR G1 contacted the government of Amazonas and awaits an official position on the determinations.

In the text, Judge Leoney Figliuolo Harraquian it even provides for the use of police force to “preserve public order.” The daily fine in case of non-compliance with the measures is R $ 50 thousand, which will be applied to Governor Wilson Lima.

According to the decision, the government still has to make a daily statement in the media to explain the measures to the population. The text also says that the expansion of social life can occur after a risk assessment carried out by the Health Surveillance Foundation, which still must issue, every five days, a report indicating the measures that the State must adopt. to decrease pollution.

The decision also determines that the daily bulletin of cases includes the number of patients in the interior and capital of Amazonas, including those of the private network, who are waiting for a place for hospitalization, as well as the availability of Covid beds. 19, with details. occupation by pregnant women, children, cancer and heart patients.

Amazonas has already registered more than 5,300 deaths and 200,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19. On December 31, Manaus broke the record for hospitalizations for Covid-19: 124 hospitalizations were recorded in a single day, the highest number since the start of the pandemic, when the city suffered collapses in the health and funeral system.

On December 29, due to the large increase in Covid-19 cases in Manaus, two hospitals set up outdoor tents to examine patients. This Saturday (2), the G1 He visited both hospitals and listened to patient complaints.

The state government is reconfiguring the health network to face the pandemic, including forecasting the use of maternity hospitals to treat patients. This is the case of the Dona Lindu Institute for Women and Maternity, which should begin receiving patients from next week. The move sparked protests by the Amazonas Medical Union.

Cold rooms, used to store the bodies of the dead during the first peak of the disease, have been reinstalled in hospitals.

The increase in Covid-19 cases in Manaus also made the city government need to prepare new areas in the cemeteries to bury the dead victims of the disease. According to the Manaus City Council, the average number of daily burials in the city has increased since September, from 30 to 45 burials.

Governor Wilson Lima had already tried unsuccessfully to close business in the state. He had published a decree that prevented activities considered non-essential that would take effect on December 26.

However, a crowd took to the streets to protest the closure of stores. Businessmen and businessmen criticized the government for publishing a decree during the Christmas sales. Traffic was cut off outside the governor’s house after protesters threatened to loot the place.

With pressure from merchants, the governor took a step back and released the operation of non-essential activities, with few time restrictions.

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