Baños de Agua Santa returned to social distancing and Catamayo will return to social confinement.
Starting this week, the Catamayo (Loja) and Baños de Agua Santa (Tungurahua) cantons will change their system to combat the pandemic.
The first will return to social confinement on Wednesday and the second to social distancing, starting this Monday, July 27.
So far, 197 cantons are in the second level of social distancing; 13 remain in red and 11 in green.
Catamayo will become the second canton of Loja that will return to confinement, after Macará, which did so on July 22.
The Catamayo Emergency Operations Committee (COE) made that decision last Thursday, given the increase in cases and the citizens’ failure to comply with biosafety regulations.
The mayor and president of the COE, Armando Figueroa, said that since July 1 there was more disorder in the town when private and clandestine parties were detected without taking biosecurity measures.
To this is added that the contagions would also occur due to the proximity and the commercial relationship with Loja, which has 1,551 of the 1,955 registered in the province, where health homes would already be on the edge.
In the case of Baños de Agua Santa, this is the second time they have passed into social distancing. The change was decided last week during a COE meeting.
Baños went to confinement on July 4, due to the increase in coronavirus cases.
With this new change of stage, the mayor, Luis Silva, said that the controls will continue, given that in this last week there was an increase of 10% of cases.
He stated that the national COE has also been asked for authorization to lower the curfew until 18:00, as it has been done in the confinement stage, as well as giving way to the dry law.
In Pichincha, the Rumiñahui COE on Friday analyzed a possible return to confinement, but finally determined that it will continue in the stage of social distancing. Not so the canton Mejía which is the only one that returned to confinement. But the authorities insist on the application of measures such as the dry law, the extension of the curfew and the identification of critical sectors.
There are cantons of Morona Santiago, Zamora Chinchipe, Sucumbíos and Orellana that still remain in the confinement stage; most have been in that state since last May. Progressive contagion in indigenous communities and weak hospital infrastructure impede change.
In the case of the beaches, the operations intensified. For example, on the beach of Las Palmas, in Esmeraldas, people who came to have fun at this resort were dispersed through a megaphone.
The control was also accompanied by the 37 cameras of the ECU-911 video surveillance system, which helped locate those who went to the beaches of Atacames, in the south of the province.
Meanwhile, in Santa Elena resorts, the inspections were also doubled, as well as in the province of Manabí.
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