WILLEMSTAD - The government of Curaçao has extended the emergency law for the fifth time. Parliament approved the extension for another three months.
On the basis of the emergency law, the government can take measures in the context of the corona pandemic, such as a curfew or wearing face masks. Most of the covid measures under the Emergency Act have now been abolished, but the government says the pandemic is not over yet.
Prime Minister Gilmar Pisas said in previous extensions that it was the last time. Instead, the existing quarantine regulation and the regulation to fight infectious diseases would be made suitable for the corona pandemic. But those laws have still not been rewritten and incorporated into the public health law.