Pushback against re-opening without  mobility

While business groups welcome the first steps to reopening the economy, they will be unsustainable if the current mobility rules remain in place, limiting shopping to a two-hour period based on sex and ID card number. Meaning that a couple could not go out together to a car dealership to buy a stove or refrigerator

The president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Agriculture, Jean-Pierre Leignadier, said that “in the coming days we have to make adjustments, talking with the authorities about some measures that negatively impact the ability to do business in a sustained manner, when there are some people that cannot go out some days and others yes ”.

The president of the Panamanian Association of Shopping Centers, Nadkyi Duque, said that the sale through digital channels and withdrawal in the store is a positive step but will not generate enough volume, although she valued it as a way to demonstrate that the activity is safe. Beauty salons. barbers, car showrooms and service centers will re-open ana NGOs will return to work  Some 84 government and private construction projects works will restart.

In addition, the Ministry of Education received the go-ahead to start with 9 of 58 projects for improvements in schools.