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On Thursday, April 6 and Friday, April 7, declared holidays for Holy Week, vaccination brigades will visit seven churches in the Lima fence to provide parishioners with all the doses against covid-19 and the regular vaccines to prevent various diseases, reported the Ministry of Health (Minsa).
From 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., health personnel will be located outside the El Sagrario parish (next to the Lima Cathedral), the Santo Domingo convent, the San Francisco convent, the Sanctuary of Santa Rosa de Lima and the churches Las Nazarenas, La Merced and San Sebastián to vaccinate people who require it.
Likewise, from Thursday, April 6 to Sunday, April 9, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., they will attend the following vaccination points:
– Field of Mars (Jesús María)
– La Videna (San Luis)
– Wiracocha Park (St. John the Baptist)
– IPD Bayovar (San Juan de Lurigancho)
– Fevasel Market (Independence)
– Lima North Bus Terminal (Independence)
– Mall of Commas (Comas)
– Mayta Cápac Zonal Park (San Martín de Porres)
– Sinchi Roca Zonal Park (Comas)
– Puente Piedra Stadium (Stone Bridge)
In addition, at the fishing terminal, located in Villa María del Triunfo, an itinerant vaccination brigade will attend people from Thursday, April 6 to Saturday, April 8, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
The Minsa recalls that in addition to all the doses against covid-19, the bivalent booster vaccine will also be provided for adults over 60 years of age who have the third dose and those over 18 years of age who have the fourth dose.
Local governments also have the capacity to declare emergency zones in case of disasters, Pedro Ferradas, a sociologist specializing in risk management, pointed out on La Mula TV.
In the ‘Al Filo’ program, Ferradas pointed out that there is little knowledge of local governments about the powers they have in cases of disasters, which is aggravated in times of government change because there is no continuity of officials specialized in disaster management. risk.
In addition, he mentioned that another problem is the role of the central government, which is “generally excessive and does not contribute to reinforcing the role or the role that regional and local governments must play.”
“Ideally, support, advice, and resources should be provided so that local and regional governments can manage them. In principle, in the law, also in budgets and the public investment system, several aspects are considered that should be allowed to function,” said the sociologist.
In the first place, he pointed out, regional governments can budget, have and require annual funds to have first response warehouses, and these first response warehouses can be increased or decreased according to the forecasts that exist for rain and different hazards.
“But what happens is that The position of the regional governments is very passive. Some do have a lot of experience or experience recurring rains, such as Piura, which has a warehouse in advance,” he mentioned.
“There is also the idea that these advanced warehouses can be transferred to district governments to make the response more accessible. But what tends to happen due to legal confusion is that many times the regional government is waiting that an emergency be declared to make use of the advanced warehouses. And that is not appropriate because not only the national government can declare an emergency, but the regional government can do it,” he explained.
“If the regional government declares an emergency, you can make use of those advance warehouses And what’s more, it could count on resources from its budget to apply to the emergency response without any problem, even more so in the current context that several districts and provinces are declaring an emergency,” he added.
For Ferradas, the ideal would have been that Metropolitan Lima had already been declared an emergency.
“And what it would do is activate the possibility that the metropolitan government can make use of its budgetary resources to deal with the emergency,” he said.
“The Metropolitan Municipality could also declare an emergency, but it doesn’t do it because it doesn’t know about it,” he added.
In an interview with Javier Torres, Ferradas pointed out that there is confusion and misinterpretations. In this sense, he clarified that the principle is one of subsidiarity, which says that at all levels of risk management, it starts at the most local level, going from district to provincial, regional and finally to national.
“That is the principle of the risk management law. But for this to happen, there is little clarity in the authorities to expose this and point out well, Mr. Regional Governor, why don’t you declare an emergency?” he said in ‘ To the Edge’.
The full interview on La Mula TV:
[Foto de portada: Andina]
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The Ministry of Health (Minsa) indicated that from Monday, January 30 to Friday, February 3, it will continue with the vaccination process against coronavirus (COVID-19) in Metropolitan Lima and Callao at certain locations and times.
In a publication on social networks, the Minsa indicated that people over 6 months of age may apply the first, second, third or fourth dose against the coronavirus in 70 establishments in the capital. Citizens also receive the bivalent vaccine.
In addition, he indicated that some locations are pedestrian vaccination centers, while others allow entry with vehicles. There are also diagnostic points for COVID-19.
Below are the vaccination centers, location and opening hours:
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) Vaccination against COVID-19 with the bivalent vaccine began on Friday, January 20 in people over 60 years of age who have received the three previous doses, in Lima and Callao.
This new vaccine has already been applied to health personnel who are on the front line of the fight against COVID-19.
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The capital, Lima, and other cities in Peru witnessed thousands of protests on Thursday, calling for the resignation of the country’s president, Dina Polarte. Violent clashes erupted between the demonstrators, amid a large deployment of police officers, killing at least two people.
crowd Thousands of protesters They came, especially from the Andes Mountains, to demand the resignation of Peruvian President Dina Bolarte, on Thursday afternoon in the center of the capital, Lima, where police officers were heavily deployed, and one person was killed in violent clashes between demonstrators and police in Makusani, in southern Peru.
A statement issued by the Hospital of San Martin de Porres in the city of Macusani, located in the Puno region of the Andes, near the Bolivian border, included that “at six thirty in the evening (23:20 GMT), a 35-year-old woman arrived at the emergency department without any signs That she’s alive.”
On Thursday, a source at the mediator’s office said that a second protester died of a bullet he sustained during Wednesday’s clashes between police and demonstrators in the same area.
In Arequipa, Peru’s second-largest city, violent clashes around the airport left a man in his 30s dead and 10 injured, according to the Office of the Ombudsman. This brings to 45 the number of deaths since the beginning of the crisis on the seventh of December.
In Lima, a large number of protesters marched quietly. However, violent clashes took place in the city center, where demonstrators threw stones, gravel and bottles at the police. In several places, the security forces were forced to retreat under pressure before they regained their positions.
The security forces used tear gas extensively. According to the French news agency, at least two people were injured, while the police made several arrests.
A building in the city center near Plaza San Martin, the epicenter of the protests in Lima, caught fire for reasons still unknown just before 8pm (0100 GMT). “We have 11,800 policemen on the streets to control the riots. We have more than 120 transport vehicles and 49 military vehicles, and the armed forces will also participate” in the situation control operations, said district police chief General Victor Zanabria in the morning.
“First, we demand her resignation, and we also want to change the constitution.”
Protest groups calling for Polarte’s resignation and early elections in Peru have called for a nationwide strike and also for a massive rally in Lima, where thousands of Andean peasants have begun to congregate in recent days. Many of them seemed preoccupied with preparing for this event, preparing banners and writing slogans, while some were distributing food and water bottles to those present in the place.
“We do not accept the government of Dina Polwarti, first we demand her resignation, and we also want to change the constitution because because of it there is a lot of corruption in our country,” said student Lydia Huahuasoxo, 20.
On Wednesday evening, Jerónimo Lopes, Secretary General of the General Union of Peruvian Workers, who called for the strike, said in a press conference that “the struggle of the Peruvian people will not end tomorrow, the struggle will continue if Dina Polarte does not listen to the people and act arrogantly.”
“democratic mobilization”
“This is a national, popular, civil strike, with the peaceful mobilization of organizations in different regions, and avoiding any act of sabotage,” Lopes added.
“This is a democratic mobilization of citizens coming from the provinces, but also from here, from Lima. They are calling for the immediate resignation of Dina Polarte and calling for new elections in 2023 and the dissolution of Congress,” he said.
While the government declared a 30-day state of emergency on Sunday in Lima, Cusco, Callao and Puno (where Makusani is located), López said organizers did not seek permission.
While the state of emergency allows the army to intervene to maintain order and restrict freedom of assembly and movement, Lopes said, “There is no permission from the police. We never ask for a permit for a social demonstration. This is not a duty.”
The protests erupted after the arrest of the radical left-wing President Pedro Castillo on December 7, on charges of attempting to carry out a coup d’état by announcing the dissolution of the parliament he was about to overthrow.
The crisis also reflects the huge gap between the capital and the impoverished provinces that support President Castillo, who is indigenous.
Polwarty, for her part, called for calm on Monday. “We know that they want to come to Lima, because of everything that is published on (social) networks on the 18th and 19th (Wednesday and Thursday). They can come to Lima, but in peace and quiet,” she said.
Bolarte, who was Castillo’s vice president, took over the presidency after his ouster, according to the constitution. She belongs to Castillo’s party, but the protesters see her as a “traitor”.
France 24/AFP
