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In order to take precautions against the increase in Covid-19 cases, the Governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria Correa, announced the new measures that will govern the department as of next Tuesday, December 22.
The governor recalled that the ICUs today are 80.78% occupied in the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley and 90% in the East; In addition, he highlighted that there is already fatigue in the medical staff and a shortage of medicines, such as sedatives, necessary for the proper functioning of the intensive care units.
For all this, he said, the hospital red alert will be decreed from zero hours on Tuesday, December 22, until zero hours on January 4, 2021 by decree that will be issued this Monday.
On the other hand, consensus will be sought with the 125 mayors of the department to extend the curfew that had been in force in seven subregions, so that it is applied throughout the department, from Tuesday, December 22, between 0:00 a.m. and 06:00 a.m. each day, until January 3, 2021. An extended curfew will also be proposed from 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 24 to 6:00 a.m. on Saturday 26 December and from 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 31 to 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 2, 2021.
These measures, in addition to being socialized with all the mayors, will be presented to the Ministry of Health, for it to deliver its endorsement.
Likewise, the possibility of decreeing a peak and schedule for odd and even numbers during the remaining days of the year in which the trade is open will be analyzed.
“The most important thing is to renew the call to all Antioqueños and Antioqueñas, to help us observe these measures with their discipline and use of masks, keeping their distance and all the necessary biosecurity protocols, in this way we will not have to prolong these measures, ”Governor Gaviria Correa finally said.
