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Another state in the Southern Region of Brazil has taken more drastic measures to combat the covid-19 pandemic. After Santa Catarina announced the closure over the weekend, the Government of Paraná also decreed closures for the next few days and extended the curfew.
All non-essential services must be closed as of midnight today. They won’t be able to reopen until March 8 at 5 am. Face-to-face classes in schools and universities will be suspended during these 9 days. In addition, there will be a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am. In other words, driving on public roads is prohibited at this time.
Other restrictive measures were also announced in various sectors: suspension of elective surgeries for 30 days for public and private units; religious activities will work only with individual service or online worship; there will be a teleworking regime for state agencies.
Governor Ratinho Junior (PSD) admitted that Paraná is in the worst moment of the pandemic, with a significant increase in deaths from covid-19 and a high occupancy rate of beds in hospitals.
The worst number of hospitalizations was recorded yesterday, with 3,376 hospitalized patients. In total, since the start of the pandemic, Paraná has registered 628,999 cases and 11,380 deaths, according to the state’s Sesa (State Department of Health).
In addition to the restrictive measures, the state government announced the opening of 99 ICU beds and 153 clinical beds in all regions of the state. He also promised to increase inspection, so that everything is duly carried out. The governor said he is analyzing how fines and even arrests will be applied to organizers of underground parties.
Consult the list of services considered essential, which may work in the coming days:
Collection, treatment and distribution of water;
Medical and hospital assistance;
Veterinary assistance;
Production, distribution and sale of medicines and dental-medical-hospital products, including delivery;
Production, distribution and sale of food, convenience stores and the like only by delivery;
Farmers to maintain the supply of inputs and food necessary for the maintenance of animal life;
Funeral;
Collective, taxi and private paid passenger transport;
Charter for the transportation of employees authorized to operate;
Transportation of professionals of basic health services and garbage collection;
Collection and treatment of wastewater and garbage;
Telecommunications;
Surveillance, use and control of radioactive substances, nuclear equipment and materials;
Data processing related to essential services;
Press;
Private security;
Transportation and delivery of cargo in general;
Postal service and national air mail;
Air traffic control and air navigation;
Payment, credit and withdrawal and contribution services provided by institutions supervised by the Central Bank of Brazil, including lottery units;
Activities of medical experts related to social security;
Medical expert activities related to the characterization of the physical, mental, intellectual or sensory disability of the person with a disability;
Other medical-expert services of the Expert Physician career, essential to attend to the urgent needs of the community;
Industrial and civil construction sectors in general;
Generation, transmission and distribution of electricity and natural gas;
Public lighting;
Production and production of petroleum, distribution and sale of fuels, liquefied petroleum gas and other petroleum products;
Sanitary and phytosanitary surveillance and certifications;
Prevention, control and eradication of plant pests and animal diseases;
Inspection of food, products and derivatives of animal and plant origin;
Agricultural surveillance;
Production and distribution of cash to the population and maintenance of the technological infrastructure of the National Financial System and the Brazilian Payment System;
Maintenance, support and marketing services for parts of bicycles or land motor vehicles;
Credit services and credit renegotiation of financial agents that are part of the Paranaense Development System;
Labor inspection;
Research, scientific, laboratory or similar activities related to the pandemic;
Religious activities of any kind, obeying the determinations of Sesa;
Production, distribution and commercialization of products and personal hygiene environments;
Industrial and hospital laundry services;
Physical therapy and occupational therapy services.
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