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Bogotá learned of the new measures adopted by the Mayor’s Office to contain the advance of covid-19. The changes are announced after the mayor and her team met with the Health Ministry to discuss the coronavirus outlook in the city.
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There will be quarantines by UPZ
From 00:00 this Saturday and until 11:59 pm February 12 there will be quarantine by UPZ:
Get on: Tibabuyes, Suba and El Rincón
Engativá: Boyacá Real and Garcés Navas.
Fontibón: Fontibón.
Kennedy: Castilla and Timiza
Usaquén: Los Cedros.
In total, about 1.5 million people will be confined in Bogotá.
Follow the red alert
Bogotá will continue on a hospital red alert. This will only be lifted when the UCI occupancy is less than 80%.
Weekend without quarantine
This weekend there will be no total quarantine in Bogotá, as happened on previous weekends.
But follow the night curfew
There will be a night curfew, but with changes in the schedule. It will be from 10 pm to 4 am and will begin on Friday, January 29.
It will govern the weekend and the following days, until further notice.
There will be no bike path
Although there will be no general quarantine on the weekend, there are restrictions.
On January 30 and 31 there will be no bike lanes or open parks.
Trade show restriction
Trade shows will not be allowed to avoid crowds. This includes the Madrugón de San Victorino.
Bogotá Mayor’s Office announcements
Bogota City Hall
Other recommendations
– Prefer the use of conventional surgical masks. These should be used in place of cloth masks.
– People over 60 years of age are recommended voluntary isolation.
How is covid-19 going in Bogotá?
The Secretary of Government, Luis Ernesto Gómez, assured that there are “positive” signs in the framework of the red alert.
Gómez assured that there is a certain stability in the occupation and a decrease in the positivity of the tests taken.
“We must be grateful for the citizens’ compliance. Despite the return of people to Bogotá, in general we have a reduction of close to 50%, on average, in mobility. All this is what has allowed the UCI occupation to stabilize and a reduction in the positivity indicators, “stated the Secretary.
To date, Bogotá has 46,858 active cases of covid-19. Also, there is a consolidated figure of 12,183 deaths from the virus so far in the pandemic.
The general ICU occupancy is at 90.7% (with 2,215 beds occupied out of 2,441) and, specifically, the ICU occupancy of covid-19 is 92 (with 1,861 occupied beds out of a total of 2,023 arranged for this purpose).
Although they remain worrying figures, the UCI load curve is beginning to show some stability, instead of the constant rise seen since the beginning of January.
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Bogotá has been on a hospital red alert since January 7 and also, since that date, different measures to restrict mobility have been decreed. In January, the city has experienced quarantine cycles by location, strict quarantines in the last three weekends and curfews. All added to the peak and ID.
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