The measure was taken by the Mayor’s Office as part of the prevention actions in the face of the arrival of yellow fever to the municipality.
The mayor of Girardot announced the cancellation of the Santo Viacrucis that was scheduled for Friday, April 18 in the parish Our Lady of Perpetual Socorro. The decision was taken as part of the prevention actions after the confirmation of the first case of yellow fever in the municipality.
“We hope that Girardoteños and believers SEPAN understand the decision of the mayor of Girardot that is taken for the health of all its inhabitants and tourists, ”said Mayor Salomón Said.
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As indicatedthe case corresponds to a citizen from the municipality of Purificationin the department of Tolima. The Mayor’s Office confirmed the situation through its official channels and reiterated the call to the community to participate in the vaccination days.
“We have been advancing in a vaccination day in street, vaccinating 820 citizens and have enough vaccines to serve all those people who want to get vaccinated,” said Said. He also recalled that this process is free and an effective measure against the disease.
In coordination with the Government of Cundinamarca, Immunization actions have been intensified, especially during Holy Weekgiven the increase of visitors from Bogotá and other regions of the country.
From noon on Friday 18, a fumigation campaign was launched In the sector of the Alto de Barbula park, where the case was identified. In addition, from 2 in the afternoon there were vaccination days in the coliseum of the same park and at the municipal transport terminal,with more than 1,500 doses available.
For its part, the Government has distributed more than 1,200 tobillos in prioritized areas and announced that it will continue with the delivery during the weekend. The authorities will also deploy brigades to visit health centersmarket places, transport terminals and educational establishments in order to monitor the possible presence of the transmitter vector.
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“The health authorities will advance visits to hospitals, to health service providers, market places, to the terminals and educational environments to alert possible presence of vectors,” said the governor of Cundinamarca, Jorge Emilio Rey.
Source: Integrated information system
