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The executive coordinator of the Coronavirus Contingency Center in São Paulo, João Gabbardo, expressed concern about the increase in the number of hospitalizations for covid-19 in the State, and attributed this movement mainly to classes A and B, which would be having a normal life after a period of isolation. Previously, the São Paulo government had already announced the extension of the quarantine until December 16.
According to Gabbardo, who heard reports from doctors who are working at the front, the 18% increase in the number of hospitalizations is mainly due to people who were in social gatherings.
“This morning we had a meeting with doctors from the Contingency Center who are on the front line and attend these hospitals. And what we realized is that people with a better socioeconomic level, of class A and B, who were at home, working at home, became more isolated, they left, without realizing it, “he said, during an interview. with CNN Brazil.
“[São pessoas que se] contaminated in gatherings, meetings, weddings … It is exactly in those places where people drink, are without a mask, talk and keep in touch for a long time … ”, he continued.
“It always starts like this. The first time of the epidemic [no Brasil, em março] It started with people returning from other countries, via airports. Now, what we are realizing is that these people are going to participate in social gatherings. It is all that the virus needs to attack our population ”, he concluded.
Despite citing classes A and B by name, Gabbardo said the increase in hospitalizations has occurred in both public and private hospitals.
“In the same proportion that is happening in private hospitals, it is happening in the municipal and state network. There is not much variation. We were working with a reduction of 50, 60% in the number of patients. In this period, now, we have had an 18% increase (in some places, 19%) in the number of hospitalizations. Of course, it worries “, he emphasized.
Indirect to Bolsonaro?
Without citing names, Gabbardo also said officials who paid little attention to COVID-19 owe the Brazilian an apology.
“We have a very considerable number in the number of hospitalizations and deaths. These people, officials, who for a long time said that they minimize the covid, that this was nothing, that everyone had to go out on the street, owe an apology to the population. There is still time, ”he said.
São Paulo extends quarantine
The São Paulo government today published decree No. 65,295 in the Official Gazette, which extends the quarantine throughout the state until December 16. The measure had already been announced yesterday by Governor João Doria (PSDB) after confirming the increase in the number of hospitalizations due to covid-19.
Today’s text establishes the possibility of suspending non-essential activities in the terms of Decree No. 64,879, published in March of this year.
Yesterday, Doria cited “concern” and “caution” for an 18% increase in hospitalizations for covid-19 in the last week. However, the state government said that the data has yet to be analyzed along with statistics on new cases and deaths, which are provided by the Ministry of Health and have had an update problem in recent days due to a failure in the system of federal folders. .
Increase in income to private hospitals
This week, the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, in São Paulo, warned about the increase in hospitalizations for covid-19 observed in recent days, in addition to the increase in the number of tests carried out and in positive diagnoses for the disease.
According to the hospital, between Thursday (12) and Friday (13) there were 18 new hospitalizations related to covid-19, a figure that exceeds the average number of hospitalizations counted daily in recent weeks.
The new figures warn of the need to maintain preventive measures: wear masks in any environment, indoors or outdoors, respect social distance at all times, do not participate in crowds and perform frequent hand hygiene “.
Excerpt from the note from the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein
On Thursday (12), the government of São Paulo had denied the growth in hospitalizations. But, Twitter, the secretary admitted yesterday that there was an increase in calls on the private network. “There is an increase in the number of cases of hospitalizations in some hospitals, such as Sírio Libanês. But at least 45% of the patients come from outside the state of São Paulo, since the hospitals here are a reference center,” he says .
