This holiday Monday, attention continues to be paid to the seven free PCR test points to detect COVID-19, which the District has set up on the city’s bicycle lane.
The call of the mayor (e), Alejandro Gómez, after visiting some of these sampling points, is to enjoy without crowds the bike path that takes place on weekends in the city.
“The bike lane is an extraordinary space to release energy, have mental health and be able to be with the family, let’s avoid that if the crowds, we are trying to make the bike lane synonymous with exercise and not talk,” he said.
Ciclovía Av. Boyacá direction South.- North
Maphre Park bike path
Ciclovía Carrera 15 with Calle 85
Timiza Ciclovía
Ciclovía Puente Aranda
Ciclovía Santa Fe
In these seven sampling points For the detection of COVID-19 there will be 49 people dedicated to this action to prevent the spread of the virus.
#At this time the mayor @ AlejandroGL2014 it goes through some test taking points and accompanies a pedagogical day of care. Get connected! ????https://t.co/nzy8YcAdZ4
– Bogotá Mayor’s Office (@Bogota) May 16, 2021
Further, there will be teams that will carry out playful-pedagogical activities to promote self-care measures and prevention against the contagion of the coronavirus. This human talent will deliver around 1,400 face masks to those people who are not wearing the protection element and will give instructions on how to use it properly.
At the same time, 6 points of the “Take care, be happy” strategy were installed, in which professionals and technicians from different health areas carry out tasks to prevent chronic diseases and provide recommendations to citizens to adopt healthy habits and nutrition.
With these types of activitiesthe district administration continues to fight the contagion by COVID-19; on vaccination the mayor (e) reported that: “in Bogotá we managed to apply more than 37 thousand doses of vaccines against COVID -19, In addition to the traditional points that we have, we enable 7 more points in shopping centers that people over 60 must go to, who have not received their first dose and have not been cited by their EPS ”.
“The fact that we are able to catch up with the vaccination of the first and second doses for people aged 60 and over, will allow us this week to start the next age group of 50 to 59 years” added the mayor in charge @ AlejandroGL2014pic.twitter.com/ESQ7vH9Qt7
– Bogotá Mayor’s Office (@Bogota) May 16, 2021
The expansion of vaccination points during the weekend hopes to be able to serve the entire population of 60 years onwards and thus start next week with citizenship from 50 to 59 years old.
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