📋 Tender Overview
The new measures announced by the Government against COVID-19 are temporary preventive precise and territorialized as stated by the Minister of Production Jos Luis Chicoma Lcar who added that the objective is to minimize risk situations that could occur At this time of year. We seek to prevent and minimize those situations where there is little social distancing and more close contact that could represent a health risk. The decisions were made taking into account the monitoring done by the Ministry of Health he added. Regarding the new reduction in capacity in shopping centers from 60 to 40 the minister explained that it is about avoiding the crowds caused by purchases prior to Christmas. 70 of Peruvians make our purchases in the week before Christmas and we want to avoid crowds he said. In this sense Chicoma Lcar was categorical in stating that economic activities should not be closed anymore however he stressed that the Executives priority will always be to take care of the health of Peruvians. What we are doing is minimizing the risk of contagion but without closing commercial activities because the impact would be strong for workers who depend on these times to market their products in shopping centers galleries and department stores he said. Later he commented that he has held meetings with the representatives of conglomerates shopping centers and mayors of more than 27 municipalities of Metropolitan Lima as well as regional governors in order to ensure that security measures are being taken proactively to avoid the crowds. Last week we announced that we had the support of the Armed Forces and Police Forces to control capacity in conglomerates and shopping centers but now we want to be more emphatic and urge local and provincial governments to take the necessary measures and sanctions so that comply with the provisions he said.
