The morning secretary of health, Simone Papaiz, diagnosed with a new coronavirus | Amazon

According to Susam, the secretary underwent an examination last Thursday (23) and received the result on Saturday night (25). Susam also states that the secretary is in social isolation, where she will be for 14 days as recommended by the health authorities, in good health and following all medical recommendations so that she recovers quickly.

While the secretary remains at home, face-to-face work remains under the responsibility of the executive secretaries and deputy portfolio executives. “I feel good and, following the guidelines of the medical authorities, I will do social isolation for the specified period, but I will continue the work, even from a distance, together with my team,” said Papaiz, through an adviser.

Simone Papaiz was announced as Susam’s new manager on April 8, after Rodrigo Tobias left. Simone Papaiz graduated in biomedicine from the University of Mogi das Cruzes, in São Paulo. She has already served as Director of Health at the Bertioga City Council and Technical Director of Health at the Ministry of Health of the State of São Paulo.

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Race against the collapse of the health system.

The Amazon is running to avoid a health collapse with the pandemic. The government admits that almost 100% of the ICU patient beds in Covid-19 are occupied.

Refrigerated containers were installed in hospital units in Manaus to contain bodies, due to the increase in deaths. The measure was taken on the impact of a video that shows suspected bodies of Covid-19 placed next to patients admitted to the João Lúcio Hospital.

Due to the increase in deaths, the Government of Amazonas and the Manaus City Council had to take extreme measures to satisfy the high demand for deaths. On Monday (20), refrigerated containers were installed in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida cemetery to accommodate the high demand for coffins sent from public hospitals in the capital, many of them victims of the new coronavirus.

Last Friday (17), dozens of graves had been opened in the cemetery to meet the increased demand. Four days later, the City Council opened mass graves, called by the trenches organ, to bury the victims of the new coronavirus in the Nossa Senhora Aparecida public cemetery.

Amazonas registered more than 400 new cases of Covid-19, this Saturday (25), according to an epidemiological bulletin published by the Health Surveillance Foundation (FVS-AM). As a result, the number of people infected with the disease reached more than 3,600, with 2,600 in Manaus alone.

Another 32 deaths from the disease were also confirmed, with a total of 287. Among the confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the state, 250 patients are hospitalized, 126 in clinical beds (55 in the private network and 71 in the public network) and 124 in the ICU (52 in the private network and 72 in the public network).

Still according to the data, another 822 hospitalized patients considered suspicious are awaiting confirmation of the diagnosis. Of these, 625 are in clinical beds (138 in the private network and 487 in the public network) and 197 are in the ICU (88 in the private network and 109 in the public network).