Before holidays, the national COE will make resolutions and make requests to local governments

Before holidays, the national COE will make resolutions and make requests to local governments

The Assembly provides for the first debate of a bill that allows decisions to be made against the pandemic in Ecuador.

The Emergency Operations Committee (COE) national will meet on next Monday to analyze epidemiological data on the status of the pandemic before festivities Christmas and New Years.

Juan Zapata, president of the national COE, stated that there is a growth in the number of infections and the most worrying thing is citizen relaxation.

Expressions due to Quito parties left 20 people detained and more than 32 officials attacked, according to a report

He added that that day will generate resolutions with exhortations towards the decentralized autonomous governments (GAD) and decisions of the organism.

The risk is latent at Christmas and New Years Eve (…), yes, we need co-responsibility citizen, ”he said, but asked for peace of mind to citizens and the economic sector, as he indicated that there will be no “very extreme” decisions nor is a state of exception in force nor are they going to request it from the President of the Republic.

On what could be expected the massive arrival to the beaches, the official believes that capacity should be established, differentiated hours and parties should be avoided, because they generate agglomerations as well as consumption of liquor.

“More or less that way they will go I think the decisions of the national COE on what the Ministry of Health tells us, “he added.

The decision made by the national COE of postpone mandatory return to classes face-to-face for February 2022 in certain student groups due to the threat of the omicron variant. “It is in constant monitoring and constant evaluation,” he said.

While the Right to Health Commission of the National Assembly approved the report of the first debate of the draft Law on Health Emergency Management due to Pandemic.

More than half a million people have received anti-COVID-19 booster doses since October

At the discretion of Zapata, in that regulation it could be included that citizens present the vaccination card to non-essential services such as getting the registration, the license, entering a bank, going to a restaurant, basic services.

“In soccer it is a requirement that you be vaccinated, have a PCR (test), in mass public events too, but there are topics where we cannot by competition, which corresponds to the GAD ”, he pointed out in a radio interview.

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