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RCN Radio learned that the National Government will broadcast In the next few hours, a circular with new restrictions, due to the increase in covid-19 infections in Colombia.
This decision is due to the high occupancy of Intensive Care Units (ICU), which in departments such as Antioquia, Atlántico and Magdalena exceed 90%.
In that sense, the peak and ID measure would return at the national level to avoid crowds, as well as wider curfews to mitigate the high positivity of the virus.
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It is worth mentioning that the report of the National Institute of Health (INS) for this Saturday, April 3, reports 9,149 new cases, 155 deaths and 8,469 recovered, with which the country reaches the figure of 2,437,197 infections since the pandemic began.
In the last hours, the authorities announced that Medellín and the Aburrá Valley, as well as the Near East of Antioquia, They will have a curfew between 6 in the afternoon and 5 in the morning from this Monday, April 5 until Easter Friday. In these same hours the dry law will govern. In addition, the peak and ID will continue to enter commercial establishments.
It will be managed with the Ministries of Health and Education that face-to-face classes are suspended for two weeks in public and private schools of these two regions, which concentrate 90 percent of the contagions of the department.
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For its part, the Mayor’s Office of Barranquilla extended the curfew and prohibition measures until Monday, April 12, that were only planned for Easter, in order to control the cases of covid-19 that continue to increase in that region of the country.
The Mayor Jaime Pumarejo Heins He also announced that the peak and ID that was in force for access to different places will remain in force and will even cover the public transport service.
