Emelec fans will no longer attend games at Capwell Stadium; COE orders the non-delivery of authorization due to disrespect for biosafety measures

The Emergency Operations Committee (COE) national decided to order the Guayas Police Department the non-delivery of authorization for the development of sporting events at Capwell stadium with public.

This after reviewing reports submitted by state entities on the events that occurred in that stadium in the match between Emelec and Barcelona, played last Sunday.

According to Juan Zapata, president of the national COE, there was resale with which the online sale was not fulfilled as established by the protocol for those events, there was a fake vaccination certificate and three of identity theft, did not deliver -at the request of the Guayas Intendancy- the box office to determine the capacity, so 50% of the public was not met in the stands.

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Added that there was no adequate signage in the seats, so there was no social distancing even though that was the recommendation, there was no soap in the bathrooms and in some there was no water or alcohol. There were also clashes with the Police.

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“Something that has outraged us and annoyed us because we are in a health crisis that the head of security at the Capwell stadium does not allow the entrance and gives the facilities to the doctors who were going to do their work, precisely in the certificate verification and that they entered by a disposition of the Police Intendancy ”, he said.

For the official, it is a recoil on the roadmap outlined for reactivation.

As a preventive measure, it has been decided that the Guayas Municipality do not give the permit at the Christian Benítez stadium for the match Guayaquil City-Emelec.

For the rest of the stadiums, he added, the reports have been favorable; therefore, in the continuation of the soccer championship it will be followed with 50% capacity.

Ximena Garzón, Minister of Health, maintained that they are worried for the events that occurred by what he called on the citizens to co-responsibility.

Stated that Guayas It is one of the provinces where there is less coverage in the young population So he made a request for them to go to the coronavirus vaccination centers as well as to take their children.

“We will see what happens in the coming weeks to determine whether or not there is a regrowthLet’s hope not; if we exist as the Ministry of Public Health, we will take the pertinent sanitary measures to prevent this outbreak from getting out of control ”, he explained.

Garzón pointed out that, in other countries such as China or Russia and other nations, due to similar events there have been community outbreaks which does not allow a complete reactivation of the country’s economy or the resumption of social activities.

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On your part, Homero Castanier, Deputy Minister of Government, mentioned that once the monitoring, surveillance and statistical reports of the sporting events have been received, the Ministry of Government, in use of its powers with the municipalities in the Law on Prevention of Sports Violence and the Protocols and Regulations of Biosafety approved by the national COE, revoke permits to sporting events that they do not comply, in a mandatory way, with those protocols and with those of security. (D)