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The Municipal Emergency Operations Committee (COEM) of Santa Cruz de la Sierra will analyze this Monday whether or not to lift the mandatory use of the chinstrap in public spaces, the Secretary of Health, Roberto Vargas, announced this Thursday. The authority anticipated that this will depend on the behavior of the Covid-19 disease that has been registered in the last two weeks.
“At the COEM meeting next week (Monday, May 9), it will be defined whether or not the use of a mask is suspended for people who require it in open environments. In closed environments we have to maintain it, since it not only prevents us from the Covid issue, but also from seasonal diseases such as influenza and other types of respiratory viruses, ”said the authority of the Santa Cruz municipality.
He also mentioned that this will depend on the infections, taking into account that the previous week there has been a slight increase in them, after they had been in decline for 14 weeks. For this, the last two weeks will be evaluated.
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If the restriction on the use of the chinstrap is lifted, Santa Cruz de la Sierra would become the second municipality in the country to suspend the obligation in public spaces.
The Municipal Council of Sucre, in Chuquisaca, yesterday approved a law that provides that the use of the chinstrap be stopped in open public spaces, given the decrease in cases of contagion by Covid-19.
“All the councilors have agreed, well it is one more certainty for the population to begin to give the citizen the necessary confidence, and the citizen frames responsibility without ceasing to have all the care that we have to have and we can gradually release the chinstrap, especially in open places, ”said the president of the Municipal Council, Oscar Sandy Rojas.
