The Government considers that the vaccination process against COVID-19 has allowed to maintain open economy for almost the entire year 2021 until the identification of the first case of the omicron variant, in December of last year.
According Julio José Prado, Minister of Production, the growth of sales as of December 2021 compared to the year 2020 was twenty-one %, while in 2020 there was a drop in sales of -12%.
On January 2022he added, the growth rate of sales it was around 10% preliminary and attributed it to the fact that the regime made decisions to preserve health.
From mid-December 2021, the Government implemented a epidemiological traffic light by which restrictions were established according to the colors red, yellow and green.
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“With the relaxation Of these measures, the end of traffic lightas of the 21st (February), the increase in 100% capacity in the premises abroad and 80% internally, as well as the opening of the border in Huaquillas, in the south of the country, which is also combined with the opening that was already made, several weeks ago, of the northern border with Colombia , We hope to resume the pace of sales growth and of the economic sectors that we had at the end of last year”, said Prado.
He added that the government’s objective is balance in the best possible way the topics of Health public with the productive.
According to a study of Chamber of Commerce of Quito (CCQ)the sales Ecuador’s private totals in 2021 were from $160,187 million; in 2020 they were $135,161 million; in 2019, $160,614 million.
Last year there was a growth of sales of 18.5% versus 2020. Among the fastest growing sectors are the activities of accommodation and service food or human health care.
Machala is the city with the highest sales with 26.2%, Cuenca with 24.3%, Ambato with 22.0%, Manta with 19.8%, Quito with 19.5%, Guayaquil with 17.1%.
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For the Confederation of Restaurants of Ecuador, which brings together some 2,500 establishments from 4 provinces, the measure of the national COE that “pleases” them the most is the return to 100% to activities face-to-face for the workers.
Its CEO, diego nurserymentioned that this could to get better the low demand that they have in restaurants.
“People don’t leave their houses, is in telework“, said.
about ya do not take temperature users when entering premises, added that it is a good measure because there will not be a person to do it at the entrance door. Also, it will be a incentive for customer entry.
For Vivero, the optimal thing is to remove capacity restrictions and that those with which they had been working be maintained.
“That, in one way or another, allows us restaurants the power regain capacity for which we did our business analysis. They cannot ask us to recover or reactivate the economy on the one hand and on the other hand to work at 30, 40, 50 or 60%…”, he added.
The leader hopes that next week capacity restrictions are eliminated.
With respect to vaccination document against COVID-19, indicated that they will continue to request it while waiting to be allowed to return to their usual capacity.
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louis orangeeconomic and foreign trade manager of the CCQ, maintained that the COE measures are aligned with the epidemiological reality of the country.
Naranjo pointed out that at the national level closing of 2021 Sales equaled those of 2019, but cities like Quito, where there have been more restrictions, did not reach those figures.
“These measures (…) are going to support and help to oxygenate and return to a relative normality in business and that they begin to project to a full recoveryOrange added.
He also considers that it will be an incentive for many businesses to analyze that if there are more customers, they could hire more workers.
He recalled that due to the pandemic around 250,000 jobs and some 130,000 were recovered.
Source: Eluniverso
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