Companies must follow the guide that establishes the criteria to be followed during the Covid-19 pandemic , which is published on the Ministry of Health website.

She clarified that they should not sell construction materials, which requires going to the store, and thus avoid crowds.

The minister also denied the information that the dry law had been repealed.

Turner, reiterated that there are still reports nationwide of lines of people in stores who are not keeping the required physical distance, and are not using the mask properly.

Starting this Friday, the COVID standards certification processes will start, so that each regional directorate can verify compliance with basic instructions such as physical distance, the use of masks, washing hands, and antibacterial gel disposition.

Turner warned that a second wave of the virus could happen, and returning to normal will be a matter of social construction in conjunction with all of society, employers and health workers.

Statistics

The head of Epidemiology at the Minsa, Lourdes Moreno, released the report on the new cases of the coronavirus. The number of accumulated cases rises to 7,523 (with 136 new cases) and the deaths to 210, seven new in the last 24 hours.

There are in home isolation 2,506 people, of which 1,056 are in hospital hotels.

Moreno stated that there are 366 hospitalized patients, 278 of them in the ward and 88 in intensive care units (ICU).

Regarding the accumulated tests, she indicated that total 37,483 tests have been conducted, and of that 27,924 were negative and 8,559 positive.

The number of clinically recovered patients is 3,618.

Regarding the number of cases according to age group, 570 cases are reported in children under 20 years of age, in patients between the ages of 20 to 39 there are 3,192 cases, between 40 to 59 years there are 2,647 cases, between 60 to 79 years are recorded 935 cases and those over 80 years of age 179.

The epidemiologist who prepares the measurements for the Minsa, Rodrigo DeAntonio, reported that the effective reproductive number (Rt) is 0.83, that is, below 1. This value is measured by the number of infections per person.

According to the statistics presented by DeAntonio for May 2, there were previous projections to reach

- 24,017 to 122,472 in accumulated cases, but in reality the number was 7090.
- 422 to 2,764 to be hospitalized, but there were 285.
- 151 to 987 in ICU, but there were 89.
- 240 to 1,224 deaths, but there were 197.

Regarding the of bed capacity for patients, from March 9 to May 3, he said that there were 4,650 in the ward, of which 49% were available for cases of Covid-19 and other diseases; the beds in the semi ICU and ICU were 396 and 43% are without patients. While there were 539 fans and 64% of them were available.

He added that coronavirus cases in ICUs remained below 100, a fact that prevented the saturation of the national health system.