“During the present extension of the state of national emergency, the exercise of constitutional rights relating to personal liberty and security, the inviolability of the home, and the freedom of assembly and transit in the territory is restricted,” the decree added. the AFP news agency.
The national state of emergency, which governs in parallel to the health emergency due to the pandemic, authorizes the military to patrol the streets together with the police during night curfews.
The norm maintains the national curfew, which in the regions most affected by the pandemic applies for four hours from midnight, while in the capital, it applies from 2 to 4 in the morning.
The government of the president Pedro Castillo it also extended until December 12 the suspension of flights from South Africa, in force since last December.
This extension is due to the appearance of the new Omicron variant, registered for the first time in South Africa on the 24th of this month, classified as “worrying” by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Cases of the variant have already been registered in Belgium, the Netherlands and Australia, after being reported in South Africa, Botswana, Hong Kong and Israel.
Although most countries have already restricted flights to and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini or Swaziland, Mozambique and Malawi, Peru only kept the first on the list of highly dangerous countries to import new variants of the coronavirus, after excluding Brazil and India in September.
The suspension of flights includes the prohibition of the entry to Peru of “non-resident foreigners of origin of the Republic of South Africa, or who have made a stopover in this place in the last 14 calendar days “, according to the norm published in the official gazette.
The Government also ratified the obligation to wear face masks to circulate on public roads and the use of a double mask to enter commercial premises.
Peru, which began its vaccination campaign in February this year, a goal was set to immunize 28 million of its inhabitants over 12 years of age.
As of today, 18 million people have completed the two-dose schedule.
With 33 million inhabitants, the country accumulates more than 201,071 deaths due to Covid-19 and exceeds 2.2 million infections since the pandemic broke out in March 2020.
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