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Although at the beginning of December the president had announced that the forecasts indicated a second wave in 2021, this Monday she announced that the capital is already going through it. Are there new restrictions?
December’s social interactions have not been entirely favorable for the COVID-19 outlook in the capital. The agglomerations presented in San Victorino and shopping centers, The dynamics of the end of the year festivities and cases such as the celebration of 3,000 fans in the streets for the final of Colombian professional football, have been in charge of increasing the numbers of infections and occupation of UCI beds in the capital.
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Starting the month of December, the mayor Claudia Lopez provided some reassurance (especially to traders who feared a strict quarantine during the last month of 2020, for them the most important season of the year) by stating that the occupancy of ICU beds continued at manageable percentages and that the The feared second wave of the pandemic would arrive, but in 2021. The truth is that the figures today allow her to assure the president that Bogotá is already going through it.
This was stated repeatedly during an interview given to Canal Capital, in which he also explained that the projections made by experts are that the figures related to the spread of the virus continue to rise in the remainder of 2020 (it should be remembered that the end of the year celebrations are missing), but that in the first week of 2021 these numbers begin to decrease.
According to the most recent figures managed by the District Health Secretariat, Bogotá concentrates more than 452,900 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of which there are 438, 9 active per 100,000 inhabitants, a figure that has been in constant growth since 11 December. In addition to this, the occupancy of ICU beds, since December 9, has registered a slight but constant growth, going from 68.7% to 79%. That in the general panorama, because those that are dedicated to COVID patients have an occupation of 71.2%.
Given these circumstances, the question arises as to whether there are new restrictions for the city. The response of the president is no. For now, López’s bet is to continue with the moderate measures that are implemented to date, so a strict quarantine or by locality is ruled out, even in January.
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The foregoing implies that it will follow the peak and the cedula and the restrictions on the sale and consumption of alcohol. “We are going to have a very carroty end of the year, without parties in the streets,” said the president.
What is preparing for 2021 is the improvement of the DAR system (Detecto, Aislo, Reporto) since it is expected that at least one million Bogota citizens will leave the city for rest reasons. The idea is that people, when they return to the city, isolate themselves for a few days in their homes, until they verify that they do not present symptoms related to contagion.
“New year, new life” is what many sing these days. The truth is that COVID-19 changed everyone’s life. Something that can be highlighted in 2020 is that the pandemic was managed and Bogotá did not register a collapse in its hospital system, not only because of the reinforcement it received in infrastructure and health training, but also because of the commitment of many to respect the measures of biosecurity. It is intended that this attitude continue, and be perfected, in order to gain ground against COVID and mitigate the figures of the lives it has claimed and will continue to collect.
