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The Heroic City experienced in the last hours the highest number of infections since the first positive case of coronavirus was known in the city on March 11.
In a single day, the district administrative health department, Dadis reported 93 cases of Covid-19.
Two months after meeting the first positive patient in March (a foreign tourist who arrived on a cruise ship) Today Cartagena has 497 positive cases of the pandemic.
As Mayor William Dau Chamat has warned on several occasions “The pandemic is already in the popular neighborhoods.”
In fact, El Pozón and Bocagrande report the highest number of patients.
In the city 39 people have already died from the pandemic and 119 patients have recovered.
People are not keeping quarantine
The quarantine in Cartagena becomes, over the days, an uncontrollable situation for the authorities.
This week the director of the Administrative Department of Health, Dadis, visited the Bazurto market and showed that the quarantine is not being respected in the main supply center of the city.
“Bazurto is in a deplorable and shameful state today. There are no sanitary conditions in this market. There are areas that are impossible to access … they are inaccessible to human dignity ”, says Dr. Álvaro Fortich, director of Dadis, who announced that two positive cases of coronavirus have already been reported in this market.
The mayor’s decree says that admission is free for merchants and buyers until 6 in the morning. After this time, only people with ID in hand can enter, according to the peak and ID issued by the District. However, this measure is violated and the market is full of people at all times.
The quarantine in Cartagena becomes, over the days, an uncontrollable situation for the authorities.
John Montaño- THE TIME
Violence in neighborhoods and abuse of authority
In the neighborhoods, the violence of the communities towards the public force has been exacerbated, which is responding with violence and aggression, in which innocent people have been affected.
A police procedure in the township of La Boquilla to a group of people who were in a corner was answered with attacks by the community and in the confrontation a policeman shot a 17-year-old minor. The young man died 8 days later. His family was not allowed to see the body, and authorities said he had died of a coronavirus.
In the El Pozón neighborhood, another young man is torn between life and death after he was shot by the police, in an operation to enforce the preventive isolation measure.
In addition to the above, the trade winds that come from the north every year between the months of December and mid-March, give way to a heat wave, typical of summer, which makes it unbearable to be between four walls, especially in the popular neighborhoods where families lack air conditioning.
There is a dry law all weekend: the consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited between 6 am on Saturday, May 9 and 6 am on Monday, May 11.
John Montaño- THE TIME
Curfew on mothers day
Cartagena is preparing to live a Mother’s Day this Sunday with two strong measures that add to the mandatory quarantine:
Dry Law: The consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited between 6 am on Saturday, May 9 and 6 am on Monday, May 11.
As in the past holidays of May 1 and 3, this Sunday, May 10, there will also be a curfew in the city, and the transit of citizens is prohibited even with the measure of peak and identity card.
The city will be under the curfew measure from 0 on Sunday, May 10 and until Monday, May 11 at 0.
In the department of Bolívar there are 40 positive cases, 3 deceased and 12 recovered.
JOHN MONTAÑO
Editor of EL TIEMPO
Cartagena
On twitter:@PilotodeCometas
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