Duque extends selective isolation until November 30 for the entire country

This Wednesday, the President of the Republic Iván Duque, announced in the “Prevention and Action” program that the selective isolation with individual distancing will be extended until November 30, maintaining the validity of the current conditions.

“During the month of October we have maintained selective isolation with responsible individual distancing and today I have given very clear instructions to the Minister of Health, after listening to all the experts and the comments, so that we issue a decree effective November 1, extending selective isolation until November 30 with responsible individual distancing ”, specified the head of state.

In turn, the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Fernando Ruiz Gómez, after a meeting with the Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, and the Mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, announced the measures and recommendations for the department and its capital, that include a curfew for adults from next Friday, October 30 to Monday, November 2, from 10 pm to 6 am, among other measures.

“In order to minimize the impacts and have a management of the situation of the pandemic by covid-19”, it was decreed dry law from this Friday at 6 pm until midnight on Monday Y Continuous curfew for minors from Friday, October 30 at 6 p.m. to Monday, November 2 at 6 p.m., in Antioquia and Medellín.

“Citizen collaboration is required to avoid cases of covid-19, but also others such as traffic accidents, alcohol consumption and others”said Minister Ruíz Gómez.

“What interests us is to protect our children and protect our young people, and by protecting them, we protect very strongly, very intensely the elderly, who are the population most at risk”, said Governor Gaviria in the presidential program “Protection and action.”

In turn, he mentioned that these measures are taken to avoid that the plateau of high infections that the department presents does not increase, but at the same time, seek to maintain the economic reactivation and the generation of employment.

So far, the mayors of the municipalities of El Carmen de Viboral, El Retiro, Santuario, Guarne, La Ceja, La Unión, Marinilla, Rionegro and San Vicente Ferrer They warned that any type of celebration on public roads will be prohibited until January 2021This includes celebrations such as Christmas, the day of the Candles and New Years.

Caldas

The coffee department also accepted the recommendations of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection to avoid the increase in cases of covid-19 during the Halloween celebration on October 30.

Carlos Mario Marín, Mayor of Manizales, announced that the capital of the department will have a curfew for minors, due to the peak of infections that the city presents. According to the president, the measure will run from 12 noon on Friday, October 30, until 5 in the morning on Sunday, November 1. On Monday, November 2, the curfew will go from 12 noon to 12 in the morning.

The mayor also reported that Those of legal age will have a curfew from Friday, October 30 to Monday, November 2, from 8 at night to 5 in the morning.

Mayor Marín also announced that, during these days, catering establishments, such as restaurants and essential stores, will only be able to make sales in person until 8 at night, and offer addresses until 11 at night.

For its part, The mayor of Armenia, José Manuel Ríos, reported that he decreed a curfew for minors from 4 p.m. on Friday, October 30, until 6 a.m. on Sunday, November 1.

Ríos also indicated that both shopping centers and other public establishments in the city will not be able to hold mass events to avoid crowds.

Tolima

The mayor of Ibagué, Andrés Felipe Hurtado, reported that The Tolima capital will have a curfew from 4 in the afternoon on Saturday, October 31 until 4 in the morning on Sunday, November 1.

For its part, the governor of Tolima, Ricardo Orozco Valero, indicated that parties and tours to ask for sweets were prohibited throughout the department, and he also pointed out that, from now on, the prohibition of December festivities such as Velitas, Christmas and New Years is contemplated.

The mayor of El Espinal, Juan Carlos Tamayo, also revealed that it is contemplated to decree a curfew in this Tolima municipality from 4 in the afternoon of Saturday, October 31, until 4 in the morning of Sunday, November 1. That same day the measure would be implemented from 5 in the afternoon, until the early hours of Tuesday, November 3.

Cundinamarca

In the central department of the country, a curfew was decreed in 14 municipalities Yacopí, Funza, Cajicá, Cachipay, La Mesa, Tocancipá, Cota, Tausa, Madrid and Villapinzón will have mobility restrictions for minors. And Sibaté, Soacha, Nariño and Zipaquirá will have a curfew for the entire community.

“From now on my invitation to the people of Cundinamarca where a curfew was not declared to make this decision, as a vote of confidence due to the good behavior they have observed and not as a window of contagion,” said the governor of the department, Nicolás García.

The mayor of Soacha, Juan Carlos Saldarriaga, announced that, in order to avoid crowds during the Halloween celebration, there will be a curfew for minors in the municipality. The measure will govern from 4 in the afternoon on Saturday, October 31, until 4 in the morning on Sunday, November 1.

The mayor also reported that parents who let minors out may face a fine of $ 930,000 pesos, in addition to the fact that minors could be taken to the ICBF.

In Zipaquirá, the mayor of the municipality, Wilson García Fajardo, announced that there will also be a curfew between 6 in the afternoon and 6 in the morning on Friday, October 30, until Sunday, November 1.

Boyacá

The department of Boyacá was the first to decree a curfew in all its municipalities on the three days from October 30 to November 2 at 7:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

Cordova

The Government of the department decreed a curfew for minors, between October 30 and November 1, and dry law in all municipalities from Friday, October 30 at 5 pm to November 3 at 6 pm

Between October 30 and November 1, no minor may be on the streets or public places in the 30 municipalities of the department, except for an emergency or health problems.

Other cities

The mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, announced last Thursday that the capital of the country will not have a curfew during the day of the witches, this October 31; however, he stressed that the celebrations should take place at home, in order to avoid crowds.

The mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, announced that, although there will be no curfew on Halloween, Yes, public events in companies, shopping centers, and other places where agglomerations may appear, will be suspended.

For its part, Juan Carlos Cárdenas, mayor of Bucaramanga, reported that Halloween celebrations in the city were suspended and that, in addition to the curfew that has been implemented since 11 at night, the city will have no more restrictions for the moment.

Cartagena

The walled city also joins the club of the capitals that decreed a curfew for minors, from Friday, October 30 at 7pm. at midnight on November 2.

Hunting

The capital of Córdoba, one of the worst hit by the pandemic, decreed a general curfew and dry law during the weekend and the holding of meetings in public places, closed complexes and shopping centers was prohibited.

Neiva

In Neiva, a curfew will be applied for the nights of October 30 and 31 and November 1 between 10 pm and 5 am, some measures that will be complemented with the mandatory confinement of November 2 throughout the day.

Measures against the pandemic

This weekend more than 7.5 million Colombians will be under touch curfew in about 312 municipalities throughout the country.

In this sense, the Minister of Health made a general balance in the way that the waves of contagion have occurred in the country, in which he explained that in Colombia there have been three successive waves: the first in Leticia, the Pacific Coast and the Caribbean Region; the second in Bogotá, Bucaramanga and Cali; and the third that is currently presented in cities with successful policies and good citizen behavior such as Armenia, Pereira, Ibagué, Tunja, Manizales and Medellín, one of the most affected in recent days.

In turn, he mentioned that a fourth wave is possible in the national territory, which could occur in the most dispersed municipalities where the peak has not occurred, but that at this time corresponds to the third wave and that for that reason they have occurred an increase in infections.