Paes meets with the future Secretary of Health on Monday to discuss measures to combat Covid-19 | 2020 elections in Rio de Janeiro

“We are going to work on the issue of reopening the beds. There is a bed in Acari, there is a bed in the federal network, for that Daniel will begin to articulate with the Minister of Health and address the pandemic as it should be treated, with care, zeal , allowing the fatality rate in Rio de Janeiro to be drastically reduced. Many deaths in Rio de Janeiro that if we had done a better job this would not have happened, “said Paes.

OR G1 He contacted the mayor’s advisor, Marcelo Crivella, but until the last update of this report he had not received any comments.

Regarding the field hospitals that were created during the pandemic, Paes said he has not made a decision yet, but made it clear that he prefers to invest in existing beds.

“I always thought that there was no need for a field hospital. I think there are so many beds in Rio that are no longer used, that if you reactivate them and put them to work, I have no doubt that this is the best way,” he said. Paes.

This Sunday (29), the state of Rio reached 22,561 deaths and 353,316 confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to a balance released by the State Department of Health. In relation to the balance of Saturday (28), there were 22 more deaths and 556 cases.

Despite the recommendation to avoid crowds to reduce the spread of the disease, the beaches of the South Zone of the city were crowded this Sunday with strong heat and temperatures of up to 36ºC, according to Inmet.

The future mayor also indicated that he is going to dialogue with the federal government to bring to Rio de Janeiro some of the seven million tests that are not used in a Union warehouse and that may expire.

“We are going to start working first to bring a lot of tests to the city of Rio de Janeiro. The federal government has a very large amount of tests at the moment and we want to bring at least 400 or 450 thousand tests,” he said.

Still, according to him, it is important to adopt measures that are effectively complied with by the population. “The important thing now is that we identify effective measures to combat the pandemic and the social detachment of the population. It is useless to ask people for things that people often know that they will not comply,” he clarified.

Paes had an expressive victory this Sunday (29), with a difference of more than 700 thousand votes for Marcelo Crivella (Republicans) in the dispute for the Rio City Council, he had coverage throughout the city. Paes reappeared in the five electoral zones where he had lost in the first round and won in the 49 in the second.

In the first round, Crivella beat Paes in three electoral zones of Big field, in the West Zone; one in Sulacap Garden, also in the region, and another in ceramics, in the North Zone.

In the latter, the difference was only 50 votes two weeks ago. In the second round, however, the “turn” became a win: there were 3,000 votes difference in the Zona Norte neighborhood.

Even in Campo Grande, an area with much of the evangelical population, Crivella was unable to maintain control. He lost about 800 votes in each of them.

A The greatest advantage for Paes in the second round occurred in two electoral zones of the Botanical Garden, in the South Zone of Rio, with around 85%.

The victory was also wide in the electoral zones of Copacabana, Laranjeiras and Tijuca, where it obtained close to 80% of the valid votes.