April 28, 2020 / COVID-19 / Health
On April 21, 2020, it was published in the Federal Official Gazette (“FOG”), the Agreement that modifies the agreement published in the Federal Official Gazette on March 31, 2020, which establishes extraordinary actions to handle the health emergency.
The Agreement amends the Agreement published on March 31, 2020, and commands the following.
a) Immediate suspension from Mach 30 to May 30, 2020, of non-essential activities in order to mitigate the spread and transmission of the SARS-CoV2 virus within the community, reduce the burden of disease, its complications, and death due to COVID-19 in the population residing in Mexico.
b) Extraordinary actions established in the Agreement published on March 31, 2020, will cease to be implemented from May 18, 2020, in those municipalities with low or no SARS-CoV2 virus transmission as of that date.
c) The Federal Ministry of Health will define the criteria to evaluate the intensity of SARS-CoV2 virus transmission and any other factor related to the risk of spreading the disease and the vulnerability of the affected populations.
d) The Federal Ministry of Health will establish the guidelines to reduce mobility among municipalities with different degrees of spread in order to avoid the dispersion of the disease.
e) The Federal Ministry of Health will make the adjustments it deems necessary to the epidemiological surveillance system to achieve special surveillance of serious and critically sick patients due to the virus and the demand and availability of hospital services.
f) The state governments must (i) keep the daily report of occupancy, availability, and care due to Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI); (ii) implement the prevention and control measures according to the epidemic magnitude; (iii) establish and execute the mechanisms to reduce the inhabitant mobility among municipalities with different degrees of spread; and (iv) ensure the proper and adequate implementation of the extraordinary measures, and inform the Federal Ministry of Health of their monitoring.
g) It is the responsibility of the State Governments, in their capacity as health authorities, to execute and supervise hospital conversion and expansion plans to ensure medical care to the population, both for COVID-19 disease and any other health care need.
