PEDASÍ, Los Santos. Some  13 people. including seven foreigners were arrested  in the late afternoon of Wednesday, April 1, in Playa Venao, Pedasí district, for violating quarantine e laws

Miguel Batista, mayor of Pedasí, said that in the operation was carried out jointly by Police and health officials, and about 40 people were surprised on the beach, but most fled.

He said they were surfing and walking on the beach like on a normal summer day.

According to a justice of the peace, Nelly Vera, eight men and five women, were fined $ 100 each.

The mayor of Pedasí said that a minority of the population does not seem to understand that there is a national emergency and that there are decrees and restrictions that must be complied with.

The regional director of health for  Los Santos Ayvar Hernández said that thanks to the sanitary fence and all the controls scattered throughout the province, only one indigenous coronavirus case has been reported in a 43-year-old man residing in Sabana Grande, Los Santos.