Until August 30, 2022, teleworking will be maintained in public servants of the Executive function due to COVID-19.
Juan Zapata, president of the national Emergency Operations Committee (COE), indicated that the body, based on the epidemiological report on the pandemic and due to the holiday that passed from the First Cry of Independence due to a preventive issue of contagion risk, decided to maintain teleworking until that date, where an evaluation will be carried out again and it will be established whether from September 1 there will be a return to 100% attendance or not.
The Government had decided to return to teleworking from Thursday, July 28, for workers in the Executive Function. The measure was evaluated on Tuesday.
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With this, the highest authorities of the public institutions of the Executive, until August 30, will be empowered to define which personnel carry out work in person and which personnel carry out teleworking tasks, provided that the correct provision of public services is guaranteed.
In the case of strategic sectors, they may or may not adopt this provision.
The decentralized autonomous governments and the private sector were urged to accept the COE resolution.
96,762 public officials will remain in telework and of them 51,333 are women (53%) and 46,459 are men (47%), Zapata said.
What was resolved by the national COE is based on the epidemiological report presented on Tuesday by the Ministry of Public Health (MSP).
José Ruales, Minister of Health, pointed out that in weeks 31 (15 days ago) and 32 (last week) there is a significant reduction in the number of cases as well as the viral positivity of the PCR tests (38%) and of antigens (53%).
“The trend (…) is that this second wave of the year was lower in relation to the first two months of this year and it is already decreasing and it is already going down to lower figures, which does not mean that the pandemic or COVID is going to disappear. (…) we have to continue being careful”, he said.
In the provinces of Morona Santiago, Galápagos, Bolívar and Napo there was a higher incidence of infections, while a lower incidence in Guayas, Tungurahua.
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In hospitals, he noted, there is low hospitalization and intensive care admissions.
The trend of deaths is also downward; there was one in the last week in Azuay.
He announced that from this Tuesday, August 16, the publication of coronavirus reports will be resumed.
About the holiday, Zapata said that around 1,300,000 people mobilized throughout the national territory.
There were almost 50,000 people on the beaches, 19% more than the previous holiday, and 651,433 due to tolls, 13% more than the previous holiday. In addition, 585,552 people traveled through land terminals. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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