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The undersecretary of Health, Paula Daza, referred to increase in cases due to COVID-19 that was reported in the balance of this Wednesday, which numbered 2,660 new infections, and the quarantine applied to 38 communes in the Metropolitan Region.
Asked whether the measure came at the appropriate time or if it should have been adopted earlier, the undersecretary held in CHV News that “due to the sustained increase (of positive cases) the time has come for a total quarantine in the region“With which they hope to be able to put a stop to the contagion, since” it is the only way to stop the spread “.
Along the same lines, he stressed that “the situation of the Metropolitan Region is very different from that of the other regions“For this reason, he explained, different measures were taken in different areas of the country.
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“I don’t want to make an analysis of what was said, the moment is critical in our country and all of us as authorities, the media and people have to worry about taking care of this virus, “added the health authority.
It is for the above that, when asked if there were messages of relaxation in the face of the pandemic, he stressed that “There will be time to make an analysis of situations, errors and various difficulties, but today the situation is so complex that it seems to me the most important thing is that we unite in containing the spread ”.
On the stock of input tests to perform the PCR test in private clinics, with which you can test possible cases of SARS-CoV-2, Daza reiterated that the public system has the tests, while the “private sector is solving the issue and inputs are coming to respond“
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Despite that, he called for “careful use of the resource” and allocate it to those who need it. “We do not have information on who went to private clinics, but we do know that demand was greater than supply“
Finally, regarding the benefits that MRI quarantine can have, Daza explained that “it will allow a decrease in the spread of this virus if we all respect it” and that “will allow you to have a less stressed health network“
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