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The mayor of São Paulo, Bruno Covas (PSDB), determined on Tuesday night (5) the suspension of all road blocks in the city to try to increase the rate of social isolation in the capital of São Paulo. The determination begins to take effect this Wednesday (6), according to the council.
The suspension came after many complaints from health officials, who were blocked in these blocks created by the municipal administration. The episode led to the opening of a public civil investigation by the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo to investigate the measure added by the municipal administration.
In determining the suspension of the blockades, the mayor evaluated that they did not have the desired effect, which was to increase the adherence of São Paulo residents to social isolation in the city.
According to the São Paulo government, the social isolation index of the capital of São Paulo for the first day of blockades, on Monday (4), was 48% in the municipality. One percentage point above the state index, which was 47% statewide adherence.
At the moment, according to the city council, there are no other measures to compel or convince people to maintain social distance in São Paulo. The municipal administration says it will continue with educational campaigns in the media and at the intersections of the city, with the distribution of pamphlets in defense of social distance. However, these blocks will only be educational.
City inspection teams are also expected to increase fines for merchants who do not qualify for essential services and are entering city quarantine.
Mayor Bruno Covas was extremely uncomfortable with the blatant recording of TV Globo’s SP1, which on Tuesday (5) showed the entrance to the crowded Pagé gallery in the Rua 25 de Março region, a few kilometers from the town hall. , in the center of São Paulo.
Globocop captures agglomeration in region 25 of Março in the Center
Blocking of health professionals
The blockade on streets and avenues of the São Paulo capital It started on Monday (4), but on Tuesday (5) the city of São Paulo increased the number of interdictions from four to eight on the main avenues in the eastern, northern, western, and southern zones.
The blockade period was also extended and began to operate between 6 am and 10 am, creating congestion in the city. The highest congestion recorded on Tuesday (5) in the capital of São Paulo was 3.5 km in Radial Leste.
Health professionals were blocked in some of these blocks created by the City of São Paulo to try to improve the isolation rate in the capital. André Silva, a billing analyst at a hospital in the city of São Paulo, was one of the professionals who got stuck in traffic and was late for work.
“I would have to be at the hospital at 7 am, it is 9 am and I didn’t get halfway there. It’s sad, isn’t it? “, Said.
Due to situations like this, the Public Ministry of the State of São Paulo opened a public civil investigation to investigate the measure added by the municipal administration.
The Traffic Engineering Company (CET) has to explain to the MP what studies supported the adoption of the measure.
Until the beginning of the afternoon of this Tuesday (5), the city said that it had not yet been informed about the opening of an investigation by the Public Ministry and that, when so, it will provide all the information requested by prosecutors.
City Council increases traffic blocks in the capital of São Paulo
Laboratory nursing technician Franciene Teixeira said she spent more than three hours in congestion. Nurse Renata Nicomuceno said she did not imagine that the blockage would interfere so much with her schedule. “I knew there would be some blocks, but I thought by the time I left, it wouldn’t be a problem,” he reported.
On Moreira Guimarães Avenue, in the North-South corridor, health professionals who released documents were released. However, an ambulance was unable to pass and had to detour, four others passed, but only after being in the jam. The blockage caused 1 km of traffic jam. The peak of congestion in the city of São Paulo reached 19 km at 8 in the morning.
Dozens of people lined up at the door of the Caixa Economica branch of Largo 13 de Maio, in the South Zone of São Paulo. At lunchtime, many people gathered in front of the Pagé Gallery, in the central region of the capital of São Paulo, in the afternoon the Metropolitan Civil Guard went to the place and closed the shops that were open.
In the center, it was possible to see many vendors in Rua Barão de Duprat, the Sé sub-prefecture reported that it carried out an inspection in the region and that four stores were closed and fined around R $ 9,000.
In the Dom Pedro park, the illegal cigarette trade operated normally. Some bars in Brás remained open, and despite the ban on consuming over the counter, many people ate and drank outside, there was also a crowd at Praça da Sé.
The City Council said it supervises and has closed 299 non-essential establishments that have violated the quarantine, 115 in the Sé region alone, 34 in Aricanduva, 23 in Santo Amaro and 14 in Lapa.
