The governments of Peru and Panama on Thursday tightened
restrictions on citizens who can go out to buy food, implementing the unusual
measure of separating circulation on the streets by gender and three times a week.
Peruvian President Martín Vizcarra reported that on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays only men will be able to leave their homes to stock up
on essential products such as food, medicine or to carry out banking
operations.
Meanwhile, women can do it on Tuesdays, Thursdays and
Saturdays. Immobilization will be total on Sunday, he said. In the case of
Panama, it will be the other way around: women can go out on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays, and men the other days of the week. On Sunday, no one
will be able to leave their homes.
"We have to ensure that fewer people are on the streets
every day," said Vizcarra in his usual daily "virtual"
conference with his cabinet of ministers and experts.
Vizcarra said that it is much easier for security forces to
visually control men and women to monitor the quarantine, instead of requesting
identity documents.
The president stated that this new measure will not affect
people who are authorized to work in quarantine, such as those who do so for
the food production sectors, pharmacies and banking institutions.
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