The National COE required the Municipalities to issue regulations for the prohibition of public events.
CUENCA
With the announcement by the authorities of the National Emergency Operations Committee (COE) on the prohibition of public and massive events at this end of the year, the organization of the Child Traveler Pass is under review.
On November 24, the organizers announced that the procession was going to be in person and through the central streets. The Archdiocese of Cuenca reported that they will respect the provisions of the National COE.
Until before the start of the pandemic, the Child Traveler Pass was the most popular religious and cultural event in the city. It gathered more than 100,000 people during the morning and afternoon of December 24.
In a press conference held yesterday, the Minister of Health, Ximena Garzón, explained that in public spaces Children’s Passes, processions, novenas in public spaces are prohibited. This is due to the fact that in certain provinces there has been an increase in cases. Last night, he even confirmed the first confirmed case of the omicron variant in national territory.
With a change in the route and biosecurity measures, in Cuenca they are getting ready for the Child Traveler Pass, on December 24
At the end of October, the Archdiocese, the organizing entity of the Pass, decided to carry out the Child Pass in person on Huayna Cápac avenue, precisely to avoid the crowding of people. Then, on November 24, they decided that it would be held in the Historic Center to maintain the tradition and the original route.
However, after the announcement made on Tuesday afternoon by the minister, the realization of this religious-cultural meeting is under analysis.
In the resolution of the National COE, issued on Tuesday 14, the Municipalities are required to issue the respective regulations to prohibit the holding of public and private events in public spaces, such as: concerts, Child passes, novenas in spaces public, parties and popular dances, festivals, burning of puppets, festivals and neighborhood events. In addition, the general mayors of the Police have not authorized public events from December 17, 2021 to January 3, 2022.
The Archbishop of Cuenca, Marcos Pérez Caicedo, said that this Wednesday 15 they will have a meeting with the authorities of the Municipality to coordinate and propose alternatives, because in case of not allowing the demonstration in the street, a tour of the venerated image in a vehicle will be proposed. , as happened last year “for the people to participate in some way and the Church must lead by example.”
He admitted that they still did not have a permit for the Pass, but they did have “the good will of the local and provincial authorities.”
While the councilor and vice president of the Health Commission, Omar Álvarez, explained that the issue is being monitored, but that any final decision will be made by the cantonal COE, based on a current ordinance that empowers the municipalities to use, prohibit and land occupation, compared to the data obtained by the Health Front.
“These days the statements and the context will have to be analyzed. We must be precise, in the hierarchy of the legal framework, an ordinance has a priority far beyond the resolutions that a minister can make. What it indicates is respectable, but what the ordinance indicates must prevail, “he said.
Regarding the health data in the city and province, the doctor and researcher Bernardo Vega, published that an analysis in which he describes that in the week of 6 to 12 of this month, 145 cases of COVID-19 are registered in Azuay , which implies an average of 20 each day, and an increase of 35 more cases in relation to the previous week. In addition, 69% of the population is vaccinated with the second dose. (I)
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