COVID-19: Valadares and Leste de Minas fall back to the red wave – Gerais



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Governador Valadares has empty streets in the red wave, as in this section of Avenida Minas Gerais, in the Gr-Duquesa neighborhood (photo: Tim Filho)

A macroregion Leste Minas Gerais, where is it? Governor of Valadares, plus the Northeast region, whose city Tefilo Otoni, I come back to the red wave do Conscious Mines Plan. As of Saturday (21), the two regions will have to restrict the operation of a series of economic activities. Only essential services, such as supermarkets and pharmacies, can operate.

The decision to include the two macro-regions in the red wave was taken by the Extraordinary Committee COVID-19, which met on Wednesday (18), and saw an 11% increase in the incidence of COVID-19 in the last 14 days.

A royal do Ao Valley will remain in the yellow wave, while the other nine regions (Northern Triangle, Southern Triangle, South, West, Center, Northwest, North, Jequitinhonha and Center-South) are in the green wave, a phase that allows the opening of services not high risk of contagion essentials such as cinemas and bars with live music

The Secretary of State for Health, Carlos Eduardo Amaral, explained that the decision to roll back the four regions was taken after the worsening of transmission rates, incidence and bed occupancy in some localities.

“What we evaluated was the increase in incidence of the number of cases in some regions, which caused the return of some regions of the waves they were in. But this is the reason why we think there is a new wave in the state ”, he evaluated.

Carlos Amaral also recalled the importance of the population maintaining care to prevent the transmission of the disease. “It is essential that miners participate in control actions, with the use of masks, alcohol gel and social distance,” he said.

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