This Monday, Mexico City will launch what the local government calls an “orderly and gradual transition to the orange traffic light,” a series of measures for the capital to…
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(CNN Spanish) - This Monday, Mexico City will launch what the local government calls an “orderly and gradual transition to the orange traffic light,” a series of measures for the Mexican capital to start moving towards the 'new normality '.
This will be implemented between June 15 and 21.
Among the measures are the end of the Hoy No Circula traffic program, the reopening of closed metro and Metrobús stations and sanitary guidelines for the reactivation of some industries and shops.
The Head of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum explained that today Mexico City has 35% of the hospital capacity available in about 50 hospitals that treat covid-19 patients and said that in some hospitals of the Ministry of Health there are already "two weeks of consistent decline. ”
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- CDMX Government (@GobCDMX) June 13, 2020
"If we maintain acceptable levels of infection and hospital occupancy next week (June 15-21), we will be able to go orange the week of June 22-28," said Sheinbaum Pardo.
"The city is formally at a red light, but there are indicators that allow us to say that we are already going through a different process. Last week we were all in red and today we are in orange, red, yellow, yellow," he explained.
The Federal Health Secretariat takes into account four elements to change color at the “traffic light”: the weighted indicator of the percentage of hospital occupancy (should drop to 65%), the percentage of covid-19 positivity, the trend of hospitalized cases and the covid-19 syndrome trend.
The government of Mexico City proposed this calendar for the transition:
- June 15: The extraordinary program of Hoy No Circula ends, a measure applied in conjunction with the State of Mexico. Reopening of stations of the Collective Transport System (STC) Metro and Metrobús.
- June 16: Manufacturing industry activities begin (Monday through Thursday); at least 340,000 employees will return to work.
- June 18: Neighborhood trade in colonies and towns (wholesale and retail) is incorporated into permitted activities. Hairdressers, beauty salons, bars, canteens, gyms, clubs, bars and spas are not considered as neighborhood shops.
- June 19: The exercise of scientific and technical professional services (linked to the industries that operate during the red and orange traffic lights) is allowed.
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If the cases continue to drop and the measures are maintained, this would be the calendar from June 22:
- June 22: Tianguis and markets.
- June 23: Protocol to reopen the Historic Center and some shops.
- June 24: Hotels (at 30% capacity) and restaurants (at 40% capacity).
- June 25: Shopping Centers (at 30% capacity) and department stores (at 30% capacity).
- June 28: Religious services (at 50% capacity).
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2 of 21 | Aerial view of the graves dug by the NGO Río de Paz in Copacabana. (Photo: FLORIAN PLAUCHEUR / AFP via Getty Images)
3 of 21 | An ambulance was set on fire by residents protesting against the alleged lack of coordination of municipal authorities to combat dengue and covid-19 in Villa las Rosas, Chiapas, Mexico. (Photo: ISAAC GUZMAN / AFP)
4 of 21 | This is how the hospital in Chiapas remained after the residents' protest over the lack of a coordinated health response. (Photo: ISAAC GUZMAN / AFP via Getty Images)
5 of 21 | People wear protective suits as they accompany a coffin in a van near the Los Ceibos hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Photo: JOSE SANCHEZ / AFP via Getty Images)
6 of 21 | Artists perform at Plaza Botero in Medellín as part of an awareness campaign to stop the spread of the coronavirus. (Photo: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
7 of 21 | Statues of the Colombian artist Fernando Botero with masks as a way to raise awareness to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the country. (Photo: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
8 of 21 | Man wearing a coronavirus costume in Medellín after an artistic presentation to raise awareness among the population. (Photo: JOAQUIN SARMIENTO / AFP)
9 of 21 | "More than 40,000 Brazilians died from covid-19": it is projected on one of the towers of the JK building, by the VivaJK movement, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. (Photo: STR / AFP via Getty Images)
10 of 21 | Aerial view of the tombs dug in the General Cemetery of Santiago, Chile. (Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP via Getty Images)
11 of 21 | Protesters light a barricade during a protest against the government of the President of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, in the face of the coronavirus in the country. (Photo: MARTIN BERNETTI / AFP via Getty Images)
12 of 21 | A woman wears a face mask next to two coffins made of cardboard outside the cemetery of Guayaquil, Ecuador. (Photo: JOSE SANCHEZ / AFP via Getty Images)
13 of 21 | Relatives bury an alleged victim of covid-19 in the Nueva Esperanza cemetery, one of the largest in Latin America, in Lima. (Photo: ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP)
14 of 21 | Protest of small business owners affected by the mandatory quarantine imposed in Argentina. (Photo: ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP via Getty Images)
15 of 21 | Workers play on their break in the municipal pantheon of Valle de Chalco, in the state of Mexico. (Photo: ALFREDO ESTRELLA / AFP via Getty Images)
16 of 21 | Maricela Pérez, from the Otomí indigenous group, wears a face mask while carrying a handmade doll in Mexico City. (Photo: CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP via Getty Images)
17 of 21 | Indigenous leader Kretan Kaingang protests against Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for his handling of the pandemic. (Photo: EVARISTO SA / AFP via Getty Images)
18 of 21 | A man wears a mask in Cali, Colombia. (Photo: Luis ROBAYO / AFP)
19 of 21 | A supporter of the Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, wears a mask that shows the president dressed as a superhero in Rio de Janeiro. (Photo: CARL DE SOUZA / AFP via Getty Images)
20 of 21 | A Venezuelan migrant disguised as a character from Alice in Wonderland with face masks in Bogotá, Colombia. (Photo: JUAN BARRETO / AFP via Getty Images)
21 of 21 | The Harley dog, aka El Tuerto, from neuropsychologist Lucía Ledesma Torres, wears a protective suit to offer psychiatric help at the 20 de Noviembre Medical Center in Mexico City. (Photo: CLAUDIO CRUZ / AFP via Getty Images)The government of Mexico City also stated in its June 12 statement that starting Monday it will begin to increase staff and that the hospital installed at the Citibanamex Center will have 328 new beds (308 general and 20 intensive care).
The authorities reiterate that if you notice any symptoms of respiratory disease (fever, cough, sore throat, headache, tiredness), you stay home and send an SMS with the word "covid19" to 51515.
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