The Minister in charge of Health, Ivette Berríos, told the press that the most recent flexibility will only be provided that the physical distance of at least one meter between people can be maintained.
He added that it is recommended that the so-called vulnerable (adults over 60 years of age, patients with chronic or immunosuppressed diseases, and citizens without vaccination or incomplete scheme) personally evaluate whether or not they use the accessory in the indicated places.
For his part, the metropolitan director of that sphere, Israel Cedeño, told Prensa Latina that also from this Monday it will not be necessary to wear the face shield on public transport.
However, he said, the person is free to use it for their individual protection, since the capacity will be 100 percent on buses and the subway, among other modalities.
The new measures are the result of a successful vaccination program, which began in January 2021, and includes minors between five and 11 years of age for the school year that began on March 7.
After a fourth wave of the disease between December 2021 and last January, after the arrival in the country of the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, which causes Covid-19, the Ministry of Health asserted that in the isthmus it is registered a disease control with sample positivity rates below five percent.
The authorities specified that, however, the mandatory nature of masks is maintained in transport and also in closed places, such as shopping centers, or open places where the required physical distance cannot be maintained, due to the crowds of people such as concerts. , stadiums and free markets.
The most recent epidemiological part in the country underlines that since March 2020, when the disease was detected, there have been 763,483 cases, of which 203 confirmed in the last 24 hours.
On the day they reported one death and the total death toll reached 8,164 for a lethality of 1.1 percent, one of the lowest in Latin America.
The recovered amount to 752 thousand 769 individuals, of which 329 are new and applied 5 thousand 113 diagnostic tests for a positivity of four percent. Meanwhile, the Expanded Program on Immunization indicated that 86.7 percent of the target population -over five years of age- has a dose of the vaccine; 76.2 percent with two; and 45.7 percent with booster injections.
In the pediatric population, inoculation is at 49.2 percent with 350,625 doses applied to children between five and 11 years of age.
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