Bogotá extreme measures: this Sunday some 600,000 people will return to the capital

With the end of the holiday season, all the people who left the city to spend the end of the year with their families in other parts of the country return to the capital. A total of 600,000 people will return to their homes in Bogotá and an increase of 270,000 vehicles that left during all of December.King.

Due to the return of this entire population, the Mayor’s Office issued an alert for citizens to take care of new COVID-19 infections and asked those who return to isolate themselves for a few days if possible and thus avoid that, if they brought the virus, spread it to more people.

For his part, the mayor (e) of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, mentioned through his social networks, “We cannot lower our guard, we have the hospital capacity to serve people, but we need to take extreme care measures these days. With more people entering the city, we will have a higher level of interactions and this will increase the pressure on contagion. We are going to be watching and monitoring very carefully the evolution of the figures these days ”.

Recommendations for people who return to Bogotá:

-During the next 7 days, stay at home with the family group that made the trip.

-Avoid meetings, visits or encounters with friends or family, and share with people who have risk and vulnerability factors.

-In case of using inter-municipal transport, guarantee the use of face masks and avoid the consumption of food inside the bus. In case of using the private vehicle, maintain ventilation and the use of face masks.

-In case of contact with someone who is symptomatic or positive, stay at home and maintain a healthy diet and good hydration.

-To households that need to stock up when they arrive on a trip, it is important that only one member of the family does so using all self-care measures properly and disinfecting the packages before storing them. The Pico y Cédula is still valid for trading in Bogotá.

-Vehicles that must enter on Sunday, January 3 through the South Highway, must take into account the Pico and Placa schedules that the Mayor of Soacha decreed from noon.

Bogotá, one of the cities with the most covid-19 infections:

The Vice Minister of Health, Alexander Moscoso, stated through President Iván Duque’s television program, ‘Prevention and Action ‘, what There is great concern about the increase in infections by covid-19 in different cities of the country, but the most serious thing is that it has managed to show the lack of responsibility on the part of the public regarding care for the virus, respect for life and non-compliance with the measures that each local government has taken.

One of the cities that worries the most is Bogotá, as the capital has a higher increase in deaths than in other regions of the country

“The city that worries us the most is Bogotá, where there was a very large increase, going from 22 to 30 deceased people and some Intensive Care Units that have high levels, that is why special measures have been taken”, commented the Vice Minister of Health.

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