China News Service, August 26. According to the South American Overseas Chinese News Network, Colombian President Duke announced on August 24 that the country will lift the mandatory quarantine from September 1 and the country will enter the next phase of "selective quarantine." That is to isolate only confirmed cases and suspected cases of new crown.
Duke said, "Starting from September 1, we will end the mandatory quarantine state and enter the next stage, where the responsibility will be transferred to individuals. People should be more responsible and proactively maintain social safety distance. In addition, we will strengthen the epidemic situation in various places. Surveillance, extensive viral nucleic acid testing, and timely isolation of patients with positive test results and their close contacts."
On July 14, local time, Bogotá, Colombia, military police ordered a strictly isolated community to patrol with protective equipment in the mayor’s office.
Duke pointed out that Colombia will divide the provinces and cities into four levels: "no risk", "low risk", "medium risk" and "high risk" based on the spread of the epidemic, and formulate different epidemic prevention policies. In the "risk-free" and "low-risk" areas, the restart of production activities will be accelerated.
Faced with the upcoming restart of the aviation sector, Duke emphasized that it is still necessary to remain vigilant in "high-risk" areas. He also suggested that in the future, the company should still choose the remote office mode as much as possible.
According to reports, after Duke made the above statement, the capital Bogota also began to relax control measures. Mayor Claudia Lopez said that at present, eight cities in the capital region were originally scheduled to lift their blockade on August 30, but will now be moved forward to August 27.
Claudia pointed out that the early lifting of the ban was due to the decrease in the number of newly infected people and the lightening of the burden on the intensive care unit. “People also need to go out and exercise properly to maintain physical and mental health.” In addition, many businesses in the capital said that if If the blockade continues, they can only go bankrupt.
Claudia said that on August 27, economic activities can be restarted, but in principle all activities must be carried out in open spaces and carried out in batches in strict accordance with the time set by the government.