Deputy Guillermo Rodríguez (Yo Creo) assumes that, just as in the last Covid pandemic, with this alert issued by the World Health Organization (WHO) on monkeypox or Mpox, the National Government wants to apply restrictions. He does not rule out presenting a bill to stop a possible intention of the State.
By ABC Color
August 16, 2024 – 21:35
In front of a Rapid expansion of the monkeypox (Mpox) disease outbreak in new regions of Africa, which announced the World Health Organization (WHO)it is not ruled out that the virus could be introduced into the Americas, so surveillance must be strengthened. This The call for attention also reached the Ministry of Public Health of Paraguay and numerous people They believe that restrictions may returnas in previous years.
Guillermo Rodriguezdeputy of Yo Creo de Alto Paraná, who in the past was a reference figure of the local covid denialist movement, referred to possible measures such as the possible decision of the Paraguayan Government to use Law 836 of the Health Code, “to restrict the freedoms and rights of the population,” although there has not yet been any official reference to this.
“There is no justification for violating constitutional rights of people with this type of tools that the Government can impose. In addition, it is a law that was created during the dictatorship of the former president Alfredo Stroessner“, he lamented in contact with ABC TV.
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He says he will stand firm in trying to stop any restriction plan
As a parliamentarian, Rodríguez said that from Congress, he will make it clear that these measures cannot be used again and that he is going to try with some bill. “I think that restrictions are going to happen and They would do it by appealing to the most sensitive part of us, which is children and the elderly. Es part of an agenda y What the WHO is saying now is like a trial balloon”critical.
He added that there were economic interests behind it all. He urges citizens to convince the Government not to commit the same actions of the Covid pandemic, due to various errors and damages that occurred.
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