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“Obviously these figures worry us enormously,” said the Undersecretary of Public Health, Paula Daza, regarding the considerable increase in coronavirus infections registered today.
According to the daily report, new cases number 2,404, lthe highest figure in almost five months.
What yes, highlighted the authority, yesterday also registered the highest number of PCR tests carried out to date, reaching the figure of 74,534.
“However, obviously these are worrying figures and that is why we decided a week ago, when we began to see this increase in the number of cases, to go back to the Metropolitan Region,” he said.
Since last Thursday the 10th, the entire MRI passed to phase 2 of Transition, in an attempt to stop the increase in infections ahead of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
“We are going to continue evaluating these numbers, probably on Monday we will finally evaluate the evolution of the last 14 days, and based on those, we are going to make the determinations corresponding to each of the regions of our countryWe know that we are in some of them with figures that have been increasing progressively, “he said.
As for what are the possibilities of announcing an advance next Monday, he indicated, it remains to be evaluated.
“We have to do an analysis in relation to the communes, which are those communes that have increased more significantly, and not only in relation to the number of cases, we also have to evaluate the other parameters to move forward and backward: we are talking about the rate of positivity, how many are due to disease positivity, and how many are due to the search for active cases. We do an analysis of the entire epidemiological situation of all the communes, “he explained.
In the case of an advance or retreat, he argued, it will be done by groups of communes or by geographic areas, and not for the entire MR.
