[ad_1]
The Secretary of Health of the city of São Paulo, Edson Aparecido (PSDB), was diagnosed yesterday with the new coronavirus. According to the Municipal Health Secretariat, he is asymptomatic and continues to dispatch his personal file.
TO TwitterThe Secretariat also confirmed that Aparecido’s wife tested positive and has mild symptoms.
Aparecido took over as director of the São Paulo Department of Health in July 2018, about three months after Bruno Covas (PSDB) took over as mayor after João Doria (PSDB) left to run for state government in the elections of that country. year.
During the second term of Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB) in the government of São Paulo (2011-2018), Aparecido was secretary of Metropolitan Development, head of the Civil House and executive director of Cohab (Companhia Metropolitana de Habitação).
In recent days, the secretary warned about the recent increase in cases, deaths and hospitalizations of people infected by the new coronavirus in São Paulo.
Today, in an interview with CNN Brazil, Aparecido said that he believes the city will reach the highest weekly moving average of confirmed cases of covid-19 this week.
“There is the feeling that the pandemic has passed, but no. We are at an accelerated level, ”said the secretary.
“The forecast of the Municipal Health Secretariat is that on the 17th we can have a moving average of seven days, 20 thousand cases. This is higher than the most critical moment of the pandemic, which was in late April and early May ”, he continued.
