Rio de Janeiro to vote on new measures against Covid-19

Rio de Janeiro’s state lawmakers are voting on a new set of measures on Wednesday that may stiffen the fight against Covid-19 in the second most affected state of Brazil, as reported by radio station BandNews. The main proposals are as follows:

• Applying mandatory sanitary barriers to be installed close to airports, ports and bus stations for six months, extendable for another six months;
• Forcing the state of Rio to provide PPE such as protective masks for security forces;
• Postponing the expiry date of documents and certificates for 90 days during the pandemic;
• A bill that allows the government to use public buildings to shelter homeless people, negotiate credit lines with zero interest and hire foreign health professionals during the crisis.

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