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Rio Grande do Sul once again had a greater number of regions with a red flag in round 28 of the preliminary Controlled Distance map, released this Friday. According to the new evaluation of the State Government, eight areas have gone from orange to red – Porto Alegre, Capão da Canoa, Novo Hamburgo, Canoas, Guaíba, Santa Rosa, Passo Fundo and Caxias do Sul – which join the regions. Cruz Alta, Ijuí and Santo Ângelo that continue to be of high epidemiological risk due to coronavirus.
In total, eleven regions were preliminarily classified with the red flag. The Bagé and Erechim areas, which were in yellow, are now added to the other eight areas of the State in the orange flag classification: Santa María, Uruguaiana, Taquara, Palmeira das Missões, Cachoeira do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul, Lajeado and Balls. .
Increase in hospitalizations
According to the state government, there were not high levels of hospitalizations for Covid-19 and hospitalizations in ICU beds for at least two months. This Thursday, the number of hospitalized patients reached 914 patients, an increase of 22% over the previous week. There was a 14% increase in those infected with coronavirus in the ICU, causing an 11% drop in the availability of beds for intensive treatment across the network.
With this image, the indicator that measures the relationship between free and occupied ICU beds by Covid-19 in the state received a red flag, which impacted the 21 regions. The macro-regions Metropolitana, Missioneira and Serra were classified under the black flag (very high risk) in this same criterion that measures the capacity to attend cases that require intensive treatment. The only indicator that did not increase was that of deaths, with a reduction of 22%. The greatest variations occurred in patients admitted to clinical beds confirmed with Covid-19 (22% increase) and hospitalization records (17% growth).
This week, Rio Grande do Sul surpassed six thousand deaths from Covid-19. According to the bulletin of the State Department of Health (SES), this Friday 43 new deaths were registered and the total number of deaths related to the disease increased to 6,168 since the beginning of the pandemic.
Of the 21 regions, only Uruguaiana, Bagé and Guaíba did not join the shared system. The other 18 already adopt alternative protocols to the flags defined by the government: Santa Maria, Capão da Canoa, Taquara, Novo Hamburgo, Canoas, Porto Alegre, Santo ngelo, Cruz Alta, Ijuí, Santa Rosa, Palmeira das Missões, Erechim, Passo Fundo, Pelotas, Caxias do Sul, Cachoeira do Sul, Santa Cruz do Sul and Lajeado.
The co-managed regions classified under the orange flag can adopt yellow flag rules, it is enough that they send their own adapted protocols to the Secretariat for Articulation and Support to Municipalities (Saam).
Municipalities and regional associations can submit reconsideration requests until 6:00 am on Sunday, which will be analyzed so that the final flags are launched on Monday. The new phase of Controlled Distance officially goes into effect on Tuesday.
The complete survey of the 28th round of Controlled Distance is available link neste.
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