With the positivity rate back under 20%, the Abinader administration lowered the nationwide curfew. Curfew will now be 7pm to 5am on Mondays to Fridays (regardless of holidays) and from 5pm to 5am on Saturdays and Sundays. While businesses are ordered to close, people have three hours to commute to their final destination for the evening. That is lockdown starts at 10pm Monday to Friday and 8pm on Saturday and Sunday. The measures in Decree 37-21 are effective 27 January through 8 February.
Decree 37-21 also establishes that open-air public spaces, such as parks and boulevards, can be used for leisure and sports activities other than social gatherings and always complying with preventive health protocols. Gyms, restaurants and bars are allowed to reopen to 60% of their capacity. A maximum of six persons per table is allowed, among other health protocols. Religious ceremonies are allowed three days a week, keeping within 60% of the capacity of the church.
Hotels and resorts continue to operate under previously established less restrictive health protocols.
The Ministry of Public Health continues to mandate keeping to the preventive measures of mask-wearing and physical distancing in public spaces and hand hygiene. In the cities, mask-wearing is the norm.
Omsa and Metro mass transport services are ordered to offer the service during the authorized mobility hours.
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Decree 37-21
23 January 2021