Suba, Engativá and Usaquén will enter into strict quarantine due to the increase in cases in Bogotá: there are other measures

From midnight on January 5 until midnight on January 17, 2021, Usaquén, Engativá and Suba will enter into strict quarantine. The mayor in charge of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, made the announcement this Sunday at 7 p.m.

The two-week quarantine will govern as it did in June and when the first peak occurred. The rules of quarantine are:

-Restriction of mobility (only excepted)

-Total restriction of activities between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. (curfew)

-Closure of non-essential trade except supplies, pharmacies and essential items.

-Prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drinks on the weekend.

At a press conference, the secretary said that shopping centers and restaurants will not be authorized to operate. The reasons, in addition to the increasing levels of cases, have to do with the fact that, according to Gómez, these three towns will receive the majority of citizens who left Bogotá, based on the vehicle registration.

Control will be applied to the restrictive measures that will be applied to 2,700,000 people in these three locations, as happened in 2020, which implies that non-compliance will result in fines of $ 928,000.

In total there are three great measures, that of strict quarantine for these three locations; 7-day voluntary preventive isolation for all citizens returning from other regions to the capital; and hospital centralization.

Among the hospital measures that were taken is the centralization of the supply and availability of medicines, the face-to-face monitoring of health managers in emergency units, and the reconversion of services to expand ICU capacity.

ICU beds

The secretary was emphatic in saying that hospital beds are not needed. “There are emergency services with high demand, but we are also mobilizing these patients throughout the hospital network to manage that demand,” he said.

Measures were requested in the last hours

After knowing the occupancy figures of the ICUs in Bogotá, thanks to information revealed by the District, through the Bogotá Health Observatory, Saludata, Several medical unions and public figures of Colombian politics, mentioned their concern about the clear increase in the occupation of intensive care beds in the capital and the exponential increase in COVID-19 infections. In recent days, the occupancy of ICUs in Bogotá due to coronavirus went from 65% to 76.5%, according to figures from the District itself.

The Health Observatory published a map of Bogotá showing, in red dots, how the city is in terms of the occupation of the ICUs within the city. The graph clearly shows how in several clinics in the capital the occupation of intensive care exceeded 90% and in others there are no longer spaces available for more patients.

Most of the red dots are located within the towns of Usaquén, Chapinero and Teusaquillo.

These are the clinics where 90% of the occupancy has already been exceeded:

Reina Sofía Clinic

Santa Fe Foundation

Marly Clinic Bogotá Surgery Society – San José Hospital

Clínica del Occidente SA

Clínica Juan N Corpas Ltda.

San José University Children’s Hospital

Abood Shaio Foundation

La Colina Clinic

Los Cobos Clinic

Santa Monica Clinic in Bogotá

New clinic el lago National University Hospital of Colombia Central Military Hospital

Palermo Clinic Heart Institute of Bogotá

University Hospital of La Samaritana

Restrictive measures

For his part, the mayor (e) of Bogotá, Luis Ernesto Gómez, confirmed through his social networks that towns such as Usaquén, Suba and Engativá have had a higher level of contagion for days and their hospital occupation is worrying, “some patients who required Uci there are being forwarded to other locations. Intensive care care will be guaranteed to those who require it ”.

In a report published by Semana magazine, the media assures that it contacted some clinics, which appear in red within the map revealed through the Bogotá Health Observatory, Saludata, and they confirmed that they continue to receive patients with positive Covid-19 and that, if priority attention is needed, they have the ability to react immediately.

In total there will be 600,000 people who will return to their homes in Bogotá after the December holidays. Due to the return of this entire population, the Mayor’s Office issued an alert for citizens to take care of new infections of covid-19 and asked those who return to follow several recommendations:

-During the next 7 days, stay at home with the family group that made the trip.

-Avoid meetings, visits or encounters with friends or family, and share with people who have risk and vulnerability factors.

-In case of using inter-municipal transport, guarantee the use of face masks and avoid the consumption of food inside the bus. In case of using the private vehicle, maintain ventilation and the use of face masks.

-In case of contact with someone who is symptomatic or positive, stay at home and maintain a healthy diet and good hydration.

-To households that need to stock up when they arrive on a trip, it is important that only one member of the family does so using all self-care measures properly and disinfecting the packages before storing them. The Pico y Cédula is still valid for trading in Bogotá.

-Vehicles that must enter on Sunday, January 3 through the South Highway, must take into account the Pico and Placa schedules that the Mayor of Soacha decreed from noon.

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