Covid-19: Campinas imposes a curfew from 8 pm and a fine for parties, family gatherings and irregular businesses | Campinas and Region

• Food services (bakeries, supermarkets, convenience stores): must close the face-to-face activities at 8 pm;
• Drive-thru services (for any activity): close at 8pm;
• 800 UFIC fine (R $ 3.5 thousand) for those responsible for clandestine parties or family reunions with more than 10 persons;
• Immediate sealing and a fine of 800 UFIC (R $ 3.5 thousand) for establishments caught working in disagreement with the regulations of the municipality.
• Driving the person responsible for the organization of the clandestine party, family reunion or establishment found to disagree with the Civil Police Station., for the registration of a detailed period of occurrence based on article 268 of the Penal Code (non-compliance with a sanitary measure);
• Approach of people circulating after 8 pm, educational, with orientation to return home;
• Blockades in strategic points by integrated action of the Municipal Guard and the Military and Civil Police;
• Use of the system of cameras and license plate readers to identify crowds of vehicles;

The details of the restriction were released by the Secretary of Justice, Peter Panutto, who reported that the decree will be published this Thursday (18).

“We are making some progress, but it is not yet a closure, which is when there is a total restriction on the movement of people, as we saw in Europe. We would like it not to happen, but we still have to tighten the fence. .

There will be inspection actions, with blockades at strategic points in the city, in a working group that includes the Municipal Guard and the Civil and Military Police. Complaints of agglomerations and irregularities can be made by calling 153, 156 and 160.

The approach of people to the street after 8 pm will be, at this time, educational. The citizen must provide details about the reason for being on the street at that time. If it is identified that it is not an essential service action, you will be instructed to return home.

Pressure and health appeal

The metropolis counts 2,041 deaths from the disease and, in the bulletin this Tuesday (16), it has three free ICU beds exclusively for Covid by the Unified Health System (SUS). There are more than 100 people lined up for vacancies in ICUs or nursing beds to treat illness.

Commenting on the measures, Mayor Dário Saadi (Republicans) pointed out that the administration has reached the limit for the opening of beds in the city, and called on the population to collaborate with the measures of social isolation.

“We cannot expand the beds as much as we want. It is a call, be careful, it does not pile up. The disease is more communicable, more serious, more deadly,” emphasized Dário.

The announcement of new restrictive measures comes hours after the mayor of Campinas proposes that the cities of the Metropolitan Region of Campinas (RMC) adopt even more restrictive measures, such as confinement, to contain the advance of deaths, hospitalizations and cases of Covid-19. .

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According to the city of Campinas, most of the mayors agreed to discuss the possibility, but chose to evaluate for two more days the effects of the current emergency phase of the São Paulo Plan, the epidemiological data and the isolation rates.

A new meeting was scheduled for Friday (19) with the possibility of an extraordinary meeting before that, highlights the administration.

At a press conference on Tuesday, Dário did not rule out the possibility of Campinas adopting the measure, but stressed that the blockade would be more effective at the regional level.

One of the points that still places the adoption of a “total blockade” of circulation in the city, the so-called blockade, is public transport. According to Dário Saadi, the city is studying how the measure would be adopted without affecting essential services, such as health itself and the vaccination campaign against Covid-19.

“We have thousands of people who are health professionals, about 25 thousand of them on the front line, working in assistance. A part has chartered transport, but the majority use public transport, and the total suspension would compromise this service ”, he said.

Even with this farm’s curfew, Initially, there is no plan to reduce the fleet of public transport buses in Campinas. But the city government understands that, given the effectiveness of the measure, the issue can be revised for the evening schedule.

The new decree that establishes the curfew in Campinas complements the text that details the restrictions of the emergency phase until March 30. In other words, the current regulations are maintained and new restrictions are added.

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What can and cannot work in the emergency phase:

• Bars, restaurants, shops and service providers they can sell products through delivery or drive-thru (until 8 pm), and customer service outside the car or inside the establishments is prohibited.
• Supermarkets, bakeries and food stores They must have a strict control of the distance between people and crowds at the entrance. With the new curfew decree, a face-to-face service must be provided closed at 8pm.
• Food outlets located in the interior of gas stations They can also attend only with delivery or by car (until 8:00 p.m.).
• The Municipal Administration, direct and indirect, prioritize teleworking, maintaining the face-to-face work strictly necessary for the operation of the public service and public service in case of emergency.
• He is churches can open, temples and other places of worship strictly for the practice of individual rite.
• He is The celebration of fairs is prohibited night, as well as craft and cultural fairs. But fruit and vegetable fairs are still allowed.
• They remain discontinued authorizations for the resumption of class activities in state and private networks during the municipality’s stay in red or another more severe phase.

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