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Many celebrated this Thursday, April 30 in the morning, the reopening of the traditional shopping center Apumanque, in The Counts, done headed by the mayor of the commune, Joaquín Lavín.
Temperature measurements for customers, obligation to wear masks, a maximum of 1,100 people inside the premises, a sanitizing tunnel operating at the entrance and precautions by vendors to avoid contact with people are part of the measures arranged to function according to the mind “New normal” product of the coronavirus pandemic.
Perhaps thinking that these determinations will work is that even early there were lines of people waiting to enter the Apumanque, which worked from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., showing anxiety understood by some and rejected by others.
But as it is always good to learn from other people’s experiences, we remember what has just happened in the Brazilian city of Blumenau, called the “Garden City” and located in the south of the country of samba, in the state of St. Catarina, where a few days ago the shopping malls reopened.
As reported by the newspaper O Balloon, in Blumenau there was an increase of more than double the number of coronavirus in just two weeks. And this coincided with the decision of the municipal authorities to reopen all businesses.
It was last Monday, April 13, when the authorities of that Brazilian city took the measure. That day there were 68 patients with covid-19, and on Tuesday, April 28, that number rose to 177, which is equivalent to an increase of 160%.
https://www.publimetro.cl/cl/noticias/2020/04/27/alcaldes-pie-guerra-reapertura-los-malls.html
In Blumenau, which has 300 thousand inhabitants and where so far there have been no deaths from the covid-19, various conditions were also established for people to go shopping, such as the prohibition of testing merchandise by customers and the obligation to wear face shields for merchants and customers.
From the municipality they admitted that the increase in infections was due in part to the reopening of businesses, but they also said that this is also explained because they have conducted more testing tests since last week.
The local press added that since the businesses were reopened, there were crowds of people in the city’s shopping malls, and also that many people entered the premises without a mask, an element whose use is mandatory in the state of St. Catarina.
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