Type of Intervention: Executive Order
Sectors Involved: Private Sector and Businesses
Intervention Categories: Social and physical distancing measures; Reopening offices, businesses, institutions, and operations
Level of Jurisdiction: National
Lead People/Agency: Ministry of Commerce (leading)
Ministry of Health, Labor and Chambers of Commerece (implementing)
Overview: Administrative resolution that authorizes the reactivation, operation and mobilization of some commercial activities, contained in the first block of the strategy called “Route to the new normality”. The activities contemplated in this AR may only carry out their activity through online sales or through digital platforms.
Parameters to be met: protocols on sanitary, hygiene and biosafety measures, provide workers with biosecurity implements and must be certified by the Ministry of Commerce and Health for reopening.
The activities authorized in the first block are:
e-commerce retail; mechanical, metal mechanical, electromechanical and refrigeration workshops; spare parts companies in general;
technical services, such as: plumbing, electricity, systems maintenance, air conditioners, elevators and cleaning of swimming pools and pest control.
Full details here: https://www.gacetaoficial.gob.pa/pdfTemp/29023_A/78456.pdf
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Type of Justification: Advice of INTERNAL government advisory committee or group
Source of Evidence or Justification: National – academic, International – academic
Evidence/Justification: The use in public health of the basic reproductive number (R0), by which the speed with which a disease can spread in a population is estimated. The R0 and the mathematical models has been the fundamental criterion for the reopening and elaboration of the strategy towards the new normality