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An epidemiological panorama similar to what happened after the celebration of Children’s Day anticipated the projection team of the University of Concepción if quarantine measures are relaxed for national holidays in the Bío Bío, while the Social Table and the Covid-19 Scientific Committee in the area expressed their support for the mayor Sergio Giacaman, after being questioned by the ministers Enrique Paris and Jaime Bellolio.
As dangerous, Guillermo Cabrera, director of the Covid Projections Team of the University of Concepción, qualified that the quarantine measures for national holidays in the Bío Bío region are relaxed.
He added that health authorities at the central level have taken a reactive role in decision-making, considering that local experts had already anticipated the current health scenario in the area.
“The case of September 18 is also dangerous because we have seen that for Mother’s Day, Children’s Day takes off, and when one says let’s do a quarantine, the idea is that the quarantine is maintained,” he said.
Added that “Approximately 70% of infections are intrafamilial, so if you say 5 people in a house, in that sense, from an epidemiological point of view, I would not recommend it even in case, especially in a situation like that we are in the Bío Bío ”.
On the other hand, the signs of support for the mayor of Bío Bío, Sergio Giacaman, continue after opposing the measures announced by the Ministry of Health for national holidays. This, after the ministers Enrique Paris and Jaime Bellolio publicly questioned the regional authority.
This was done by the Covid-19 Scientific Committee. His spokesman, Fredy Montoya, gave the scope that the government plan could generate in hospital facilities.
“We strongly support the statements of Sergio Giacaman, the mayor of our region. Currently (in) the Bío Bío region we are quite bad. The director of the Regional Hospital said that if this does not stop in two more weeks the regional collapses. Higueras is collapsed, unbalanced glycemia or people with oncological pathologies – who have not been treated during these six months – are arriving unfortunately to die in the emergency room “, he assured.
Meanwhile, the Bío Bío Social Board, a body that brings together political, academic, union and union authorities, also expressed its support for Giacaman, rejecting the central administration’s position of not accepting or valuing ideas from regions.
One of the organizations belonging to the table, the National Federation of Nurses and Nurses Associations of Chile (Fenasenf), called the loosening of restrictions a slap in the face.
Carol Cid, vice president of the union, said: “We feel that these measures implemented by the central government for national holidays are a slap in the face to the work of the entire health team that has been facing this pandemic for six months.”
In that line he added that “The team is tired, it is sick. We will not be able to face a regrowth that comes to us in the coming weeks. We know that there is a significant percentage of the population that must go out to work because they are the sustenance of their homes, we ask them to take extreme measures, because by protecting themselves they thus protect their family.
Recall that this Saturday the Bío Bío region presented 234 new cases due to the pandemic, adding a total of 18,569, of which 2,328 are still active. While the deaths reached 232, three more deaths than the previous report.
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