Rio de Janeiro will close shops and hotels for 10 days

Although Jair Bolsonaro seek to ban all kinds of emergency restrictions, today Rio de Janeiro announced the closure of the hotel and business for a period of ten days.

It will be from next Friday to April 4, the neighboring town will also apply Niteroi and its main goal is to prevent more deaths from the coronavirus in the two cities.

During the ten days, only the services considered essential (pharmacies, supermarkets, gas stations and banks) will be able to open “by absolute necessity”, according to the mayor. Eduardo Paes.

And it is that Rio’s health system has been on the verge of collapse for several months, which is the product of the sharp increase in infections that have occurred during the same period.

It should be noted that Brazil has been, for more than six months now, the second country hardest hit by the pandemic in terms of both cases and deaths since the start of the pandemic. 12,047,526 Yes 295,425, respectively and as counted by Johns Hopkins University.