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Faced with the current pandemic scenario, the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex) Mexico City stated that it is time to start reviewing the local budget programmed for this 2022 and see if it is feasible to eliminate some projects or superfluous expenses to attend the current emergency.
The head of the capital business organization, Armando Zúñiga Salinas, explained that with these adjustments more resources could be injected to buy more Covid-19 tests, and increase sanitary measures in public spaces, for example, to place filters in public transport and thus prevent further infections.
At the same time, he suggested that actions should be implemented to supervise the informal sector, since it operates without health protocols.
“Those present are times of solidarity, of joint work and coordinated with the Government of Mexico City, to ensure the health of the capital citizens towards a certain economic reactivation, in order to recover the little more than 130,000 jobs lost by the pandemic, to help definitively in the stability of the family economy ”, he added.
Zúñiga Salinas also stated that they are in favor of the current vaccination strategy of the local government, however he delved into the need for tests.
“The local administration has done things well, however we also ask you not to waver in your work and commitment to identify the numbers of infections in the city, a very relevant data for decision-making that the Digital Agency for Public Innovation (ADIP ) he has been doing with professionalism “he said.
The foregoing, he indicated, is necessary to build protocols for action “joint, reasonable and based on data evidence that will allow us to now face this Omicron variant and others that are very likely to come from this pandemic.”
The business leader in the capital acknowledged that many small companies, given the economic difficulties and after about two years of pandemic, currently do not have the possibility to absorb the expenses involved in offering tests to their employees.
In that vein, he affirmed that it is positive that the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) has reactivated the Covid-19 Permit to process disabilities due to contagion of the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Prioritizing
Zúñiga Salinas assured that Coparmex partner companies in Mexico City are not currently requesting Covid-19 tests from their collaborators as a requirement for the continuity of work activity.
“It is essential to point out that companies have built and implemented very solid protocols to take care of the health of our employees. For example, in the specific case of Coparmex, companies directly monitor and test workers, sanitizing and ventilating spaces, generating staggered schedules and very importantly, facilitating everything necessary for the home office, in those sectors and turns in where they are possible, absorbing this and all the other costs in order to prioritize people’s health, thus ensuring business continuity ”, he pointed out.
Working together
Zuñiga Salinas said that currently the private sector is working in collaboration with the Government of Mexico City, proof of this is the vaccination of educational personnel at different venues of private universities in the capital.
“My appreciation and full gratitude to Tec de Monterrey, ITAM, Ibero, La Salle University and UNITEC for their generous contribution to the vaccination service and thereby demonstrating that the route of collaboration between private initiative and government, it is possible, “he said.
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