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RIO – With the advance of Covid-19 in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the measures to combat the pandemic were hardened. The decision was made in a meeting on Wednesday 3 between Mayor Eduardo Paes and Governor Cláudio Castro. As the Ancelmo Gois column says, the opening hours of bars and restaurants will be from 6 am to 5 pm, with a maximum capacity of 40% occupancy. The rule applies from this Friday 5, together with a curfew, preventing the permanence in the streets and public spaces between 23:00 and 05:00 hours. The determination should take a week.
The day before, the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) issued a technical note highlighting the worsening of the pandemic in 19 units of the federation, including Rio de Janeiro, which has an 88% occupancy of ICU beds, according to the agency. Paes had commented earlier on Wednesday that he would also meet with Municipal Health Secretary Daniel Soranz to discuss ways to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
– Faced with this news, I called the technicians to tell me what to do. I am not an epidemiologist. But, if infectious diseases and epidemiologists tell us that we will have to take tougher measures, we will take more measures without fear – Paes explained.
