translated from Spanish: Restriction for holograms 0 and 00 and other contingency measures

The Mexico City government presented the new program of environmental contingencies and emerging measures to improve air quality in the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, which include restrictive actions such as the application of the today does not circulate for Automobiles with zero and double zero decals.
The new program to prevent and respond to atmospheric environmental contingencies (PCAA) aims to strengthen the health protection of the population, especially vulnerable groups (older adults, children, pregnant women, people with Respiratory ailments, among others), “and implement temporary measures for an additional reduction of contaminants during the contingency”.
The PCAA will be applicable from Thursday 23 May and includes the following measures:  
The preventive health phase consists in declaring contingency when there is 70% probability that the next day the ozone rebases the 140 points.
The contingency Phase 1 remains the same: it is declared when it reaches 150 points.
Phase 2 to reach 200 points.
Combined Phase 2 (new) when ozone exceeds 150 points and PM 2.5 exceed 140. Or vice versa when ozone exceeds 140 but PM 2.5 exceeds 150.
In the preventive health phase, actions will be implemented such as restricting the circulation of half of the official vehicles; Public works will be suspended and no outdoor exercise will be recommended.
In Phase 1 They will stop circulating all the official vehicles and only 20% of the private ones with zero and double zero holograms; No outdoor exercise is recommended; and other commercial and industrial activities will be restricted.
In the combined phase (to be given when conditions such as last week), classes and outdoor events will be suspended.
In the presentation of the PCAA were present: the head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo; The governor of Edomex, Alfredo del Mazo Maza; The Secretary of the Environment and natural resources of the Government of Mexico, Josefa González Blanco; The Secretary of the Environment of Mexico City (SEDEMA), Marina Robles García; SEDEMA’s air quality director, Sergio Zirath Hernández; The Secretary of the Environment of Edomex, Jorge Rescala Pérez; The Coordinator of the Environmental Commission of the Megalopolis (CAMe), Víctor Hugo Páramo; And the Director of the Mario Molina Center and Nobel Prize in chemistry, Mario Molina Pasquel.
Víctor Hugo Páramo reported that in addition to these measures will implement other actions such as homologation of fines for vehicles ostensibly polluted to avoid “go where the fines are minor”.
The Governor Mexiquense, Alfredo del Mazo says Alfredo del Mazo, commented that the emissions of pollutants in the valley of Toluca come mainly from the industry and the agricultural activities of the region, emphasizing the burning of biomass, ie, the soil in burning Agriculture, so they will pay special attention to these sectors.
The President Capital clarified that the measures presented on Wednesday are only those relating to contingencies and the following week will present the comprehensive air quality program, which is projected for 10 years (2020-2030).
In addition to the new program, the capital authorities project a comprehensive Plan of immediate and priority actions to improve air quality and mitigate climate change in ZMVM.
 
With information from Claudia Altamirano.
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Original source in Spanish