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December 15, 2020 – 07:38 am
Newsroom of El País
The return of the peak and ID restriction in Cali and the extension of the curfew and the dry law in the city will begin this Wednesday, December 16, the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina announced this Tuesday.
The president assured Blu Radio that from this day on there will be a restriction “of even and odd (odd)” for access to commerce. Likewise, that the curfew and the prohibition law would start from at least 11:00 pm
“No longer will everyone be able to go to commerce every day and every day, but will have to go with an even and odd, with an even and odd, in the ID number, in such a way that we reduce the conglomerates to the interior of the shops “, explained the mayor.
It should be noted that the restrictions on mobility and sale of alcoholic beverages in the city, in force since last December 10, currently begin at 1:00 am and extend until 5:00 am
Ospina had advanced via Twitter these new measures on Monday night, also indicating that Cali will enter a hospital red alert.
Among the other determinations that will be made, the president said, “in clinics and hospitals, ask them not to carry out elective scheduled surgeries that later demand the Intensive Care Unit, ICU.”
“But also that the service providers unfold all the contingency plans they have in their hospitals and clinics and put into service as many units as we can,” added Ospina.
ICU occupancy reaches 91%
The measures are taken in light of the high number of covid-19 cases that occur in the city and the percentage of occupancy of ICUs in healthcare centers in the capital of the Valley, which reaches 91%.
“Things are really dramatic. We had a meeting this Monday with the directors of the ICUs from all over the city (…) and they pointed out the following circumstance: on the one hand, a shortage of muscle relaxants or speculation from suppliers regarding the price of the same, “he explained this Tuesday to the national station
He added that, on the other hand, there are “diseases that accumulated during the first peak of the pandemic, which would be called the burden of disease that today is expressed with complications in the ICU. In addition, new patients of covid-19 cause in the care unit intensive”
The foregoing, indicated the president, led to the total occupancy of ICUs in the city’s public and private hospital network exceeding 90%, “and it gives us that the stays are being prolonged, therefore the rotation of beds is few frequent “.
According to Ospina, epidemiologists have told him that the speed of transmission of the virus has increased. “We are with a Rt of 1.13, which is making it possible for more people to get sick.”
“In addition to these situations, which are very difficult for us, we began to see a fatigue in our community with regard to isolation and citizen culture measures and that is why we have to take a step to decree a red alert,” stressed the local president .
Cali had no peak and ID since last September 1, when the measure was dismantled as part of the beginning of the selective isolation phase in the country.
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