Camilo recommends avoiding intercity trips and prohibits recreational areas of beach condominiums – Metro

The governor Camilo Santana announced, at the end of the morning of this Thursday (21), that the Committee to Combat Covid-19 decided to increase the number of beds throughout the State, to prohibit the use of common leisure areas in beach condos and recommend that the population avoid intercity travel. The decision is based on the increase in the viral concentration of the pandemic disease, currently in Fortaleza.

“In the decree we are going to recommend that the population not travel by interurban transport, only do this flow for work or essential actions, because the main focus is on the Capital,” he said.

Increase in beds

On the other hand, the governor explained that the health network must prepare the structural capacity of care to receive infected patients with demand for hospitalization. The accommodations created in Intensive Care Units (UTI) is in rooms It will be reopened.

“We will take back many of the beds that we created throughout the pandmeia, practically 1,800. All were kept to meet other demands. Now, we will retake the ICU beds, transforming again into Covid-19 exactly to guarantee not only in the Capital, but throughout the interior, that the population has beds “.

The Secretary of State for Health, Dr. Cabeto, explained that the government is increasing 100 beds in a period of two weeks. “We are designing a very reasonable limit for expansion in two weeks, around 100 ICU beds. It is well above our need. [..] Then we will specify which beds are being placed. The regional hospitals in the interior are reactivating the field beds. Some of them are increasing around 10 to 20 beds and ICU and the same number of infirmaries in each regional hospital, Leonardo da Vinci, IJF and as well as in the rest of the units ”.

Variant of the new coronavirus in Ceará

The Secretary of Health, Carlos Roberto Martins Rodrigues Sobrinho, Dr. Cabeto, said during the press conference this Thursday that Ceará continues to study the existence of infections caused by the new variant of the coronavirus. Samples from suspected cases in the state were sent to Fiocruz to detect the virus mutation. The variant already registers cases in the Amazon and led the United Kingdom to decree emergency shutdown earlier this month.

“There is a lot of doubt about how to convey the gravity of the new strain. What we are seeing in Ceará is the change in the epidemiological profile. The disease is affecting more young people and this is reflected when we analyze, specifically, the assistance to the UPA, in which the number of critical patients is not the same that we saw in February, March and April of 2020 “, said the portfolio manager .

According to the secretary, the rate of care for people infected by the new coronavirus had an increase of about 30%, on average, reaching 70% in some state UPAs. This growth was made up of younger patients, older than 50 years. However, most have not turned into hospitalizations.

See the announcement

On Wednesday (20), the head of the state Executive had already anticipated that the epidemiological situation will be discussed at the meeting of health authorities due to the “increase in Covid-19 figures”, also a cause for “great concern.”

Camilo mentioned again the addition of positive tests in Ceará to justify the decision. Data of IntegraSUSFor example, point out that 107 of the 184 municipalities have “high” or “very high” levels of spread of SARS-CoV-2. A month ago, this alert was registered in 90 cities.

During the press conference, the manager explained that the acceleration of cases up to that moment had not had a negative impact on the demand for medical attention in hospitals or the number of deaths, but in the last week this situation has changed.

“There was a significant increase in the demand for assistance, mainly in the capital. This turns on a warning light, ”he said.

Keeping the economy going

The governor justified that the new measures were oriented as strategies to contain the virus and preserve the local economy. “Our intention, at this time, is not to take any measures that affect the economy of the state. We are going to take measures that can prevent crowds and the risk of increasing transmission. We will evaluate the behavior of the pandemic figures week by week.”

Camilo also said that he will meet with the public transport sector to try to reduce the overcrowding of vehicles, mainly in the Capital and that he will intensify the inspection.

Last decree

The previous decree, which was in force until January 31, followed the same sanitary recommendations imposed at the end of the year to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The mandatory recommendations were published in the Official State Gazette (DOE) on the 9th.

In addition to the prohibition of parties, concerts and social events, in addition to extending the business hours of establishments to avoid crowds, the document also cited the cancellation of carnivals in open and closed environments.