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Bogotá will not have a curfew on October 31 during the Halloween celebration. This was confirmed by Mayor Claudia López this Thursday to the city.
However, He reminded that this celebration would be different and that the District would give recommendations to parents to carry out activities at home.
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“We are going to follow the recommendation of the Ministry of Health which is to ask parents to have a different Halloween, a Halloween at home. Children are not going to go out to the streets or to shopping centers because we are in a pandemic. It is not biosecure neither for the children nor for the parents, “said López.
However, he warned that alternatives should be thought about so that children can enjoy a different party at home. “Do not kill the hearts of the children by telling them that there is no Halloween. There will be Halloween, of course there will be. It will just be different: we are going to dress up, play, share, but at home.” the mayor commented.
The Minister of Health had already warned that the conditions of the pandemic in the country did not allow to think about a Halloween celebration as it used to be.
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The situation in Bogotá, for example, although not critical, does not allow us to lower our guard. As of October 21, there were 23,636 active cases (and another 2,299 new cases were reported on October 22). In addition, the total number of deaths from covid amounts to 7,404.
On the other hand, the ICU occupancy due to covid is 49.8% and that of hospital beds 59.7%.
“If we look at national behavior, boys and girls do develop covid-19. Those who have died have had some associated comorbidity. But boys and girls can infect others who have a higher risk of dying, such as those over 60 years of age and people with comorbidities or multimorbidities”Warns the epidemiologist Silvana Zapata who, regarding the Halloween parties, warns that this scenario involves risks.
“Halloween parties are held in closed spaces, with little ventilation and they crowd people. Therefore, the three Cs (closed, busy and close contact) come together, the factors of which already have evidence of being appropriate for supreme propagators ”, notes Zapata.
Faced with the tradition of asking for sweets, he says: “We know about the virus on surfaces, and giving sweets implies that they are touched by many people. This increases the risk because we do not know if these people had hand hygiene measures. Let’s also think of a boy or girl who wants to eat their candy, this implies not using the mask and touching a surface without washing their hands (increasing the risk again) ”.
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