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Guia Lopes da Laguna, 233 km from Campo Grande, will arrest patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus (Covid-19) who do not meet the guidelines to remain in quarantine. The measure, adopted in consensus with the civil and military police and the MPMS (Public Ministry of Mato Grosso do Sul), is the result of the escalation of the disease in the municipality: with the first case registered about a week ago, the city It reached 39 this Tuesday (12), the third in volume of patients and the first in incidence (with a rate of 394.1 per 100,000 people; compared to 17.7 in Campo Grande, for example) in the State.
The decision to arrest those who ignore quarantine fulfills another certainty: that the total number of patients will continue to grow in the next two weeks, as a result of the disobedience of many residents of the recommendation to stay home on Sunday (10), Mothers “Due to the weekend, more cases will surely come,” said the Municipal Secretary of Health, Marcelo Gonçalves de Almeida, and stated that, given this evolution of patients in a city with just over 10,000 inhabitants, the siege will intensify. , also in the midst of a war of news and publications on social networks that disturb the scene.
“This week we have greatly intensified control. The prosecutor made a public note and authorized the people to be fined. We had a meeting with the police and we reached a consensus, because we saw that, in reality, people were taking everything on the side of the game. It is serious and we are going to make arrests, ”he said.
The house arrest of patients was already foreseen in the decree signed by Mayor Jair Scapini (PSDB) that decreed the confinement in Guia Lopes: commercial activities were seriously restricted and people are allowed to leave their homes only twice a week, according to the Month of birthday. Almeida explained that Covid-19 patients signed a document agreeing not to leave the house, leaving room for collection.
“It turns out that, unfortunately, some people left: they went to the lottery, to the bank, they disobeyed the decree. Because with this decree that they signed and with the help of the prosecutor, they will be arrested. People who are approached on the street who are not suspected of having a coronavirus are advised to return to their homes. The patients, from whom we have the result, go to house arrest. ”
In the morning live, Scapini had already spoken about the situation. The mayor said he heard from a city doctor that three Covid-19 patients were in line for the lottery. Little by little, however, the message seems to have been absorbed by the population: also on Sunday, the monitoring carried out by the consultant In Loco on the movement of people in the State shows that Guia Lopes was the one that registered the best social isolation, with a rate of 70.8% – within what the health authorities consider adequate to contain the virus.
The Secretary of Health also reports that residents are beginning to inspect the situation. “In the morning, two people were supposed to stay home on the lottery line. I don’t know how the employee knew who they were, but she said she wouldn’t answer them, “she said. Tonight, city officials must conduct rounds to guide the population to remain in jail.
Information war
Linked to this fact, the circulation of mismatched information reveals a mixture of panic and ignorance with the situation.
The audio circulating on social networks attributed to a city nurse informs the monitoring of the people who contracted the disease and, last weekend, they met with parents and elderly uncles and also with children and a pregnant woman, who they would have gone to Campo Grande. The narrative says that some people who had contact with patients have already started to show symptoms.
The authenticity of the recording has not been proven, but has already been distributed to residents of the Guia Lopes region and sent to the Midiamax newspaper.
In addition, city officials have admitted to fighting the fake news, planted by residents who, on social media, record videos and testimonies minimizing the dangers of the new coronavirus, saying they are tainted and openly ignore orders to stay home. “This week we had another case. There are still people playing, “he said.
Almeida confirmed the arrival of the hospital’s first mechanical ventilator to assist coronavirus patients. During the weekend, a person with the disease had to be taken to the capital with difficulty breathing and return to the municipality, already stabilized. Currently, all cases in the city are in isolation.
The Secretary of Health added when reporting that other measures are still being studied to be adopted, in case the population does not adhere to the control actions already taken. Among them, there is the possibility of establishing sanitary barriers at some of the city’s entrances. “It is very difficult to make barriers at all the entrances, which are many, but I can do it at the main ones, through which more people pass. We are evaluating “.
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