48 hours to evaluate new measures in Barranquilla

The mayor Jaime Pumarejo shared this Sunday a map that allows knowing data on the total number of people infected by COVID-19 in Barranquilla.

“So that we all know how we are doing in Barranquilla,” said the district president.

The interactive map shows the towns and neighborhoods with the most active cases and historical cases.

For example, the highest number of active cases is registered in the Southeast with 44, below is the Metropolitan town with 38, Suroccidente with 31, North Historic Center with 11 and Riomar with 4.

Among the neighborhoods with the highest rate of positive cases are Alto Prado, Santo Domingo de Guzmán, Villas de la Cordialidad and Atlántico.

Age range, sex, and the number of tests are other conventions that can be seen in the graph.

The tool that allows knowing the infected in Barranquilla is updated every 24 hours.

We are going to control the neighborhoods with the most outbreaks of the virus, with the support of COVID patrols that we will present to the city tomorrow.

We will continue to control the contagion chains of the first infected through our team of @SecSaludBAQ.

– Jaime Pumarejo (@jaimepumarejo) May 3, 2020

Then this is the web tool that allows knowing the infected by COVID-19 by localities in Barranquilla and updated the next day:

COVID patrols

This Monday at 9:00 in the morning, in the El Bosque neighborhood, a sector that belongs to the Suroccidente locality, the District will present the COVID patrols. This initiative will strengthen control in the neighborhoods with the most cases of contagion.

Likewise, the Mayor’s Office will continue to control the contagion chains of the first infected, through the Ministry of Health.

Curfew

Pumarejo has indicated that tomorrow the public order committee will evaluate various factors to determine whether the curfew measure is applied by locality or generally throughout the city.

Among these factors are the behavior of citizens, the response to the COVID patrols and what is indicated by the statistics of infections.

“In Barranquilla the rate of contagion is not outside the expected parameters, but even so we cannot let our guard down, that is why today we draw a map explaining how the contagion situation is in each of the neighborhoods and localities and we ask that they stay at home, we are monitoring day by day with the Police, with patrols, with appearing, even leading people to the UCJ and confining them for several hours if they fail to comply with the sanitary emergency measures, ”said the mayor.

The president confirmed that in Barranquilla the peak and ID that was issued and that is in force until May 11 remains.

“Many have asked for the unification of the peak and certificate throughout the metropolitan area, but I return the question, if the ‘peak and certificate’ is to go to the drugstore, the bank or the supermarket, why do they have to cross the metropolitan area to go to the supermarket or to the store? ”.

Laboratories

In Barranquilla, detection tests for COVID-19 are carried out at the departmental public health laboratory of Atlántico, which processes 150 on average; the virology laboratory of the Genetic and Molecular Biological Unit of the Simón Bolívar University performs 150 on average.

In addition, Sura EPS is processing tests of its affiliates with the Dinámica laboratory in Medellín and other EPS with the Colcán laboratory in Bogotá. For its part, the Molecular Biology laboratory of the Universidad del Atlántico will begin processing 50 COVID-19 tests starting today for the department.

The rector (e) of the institution, Jorge Restrepo, announced that the laboratory has the capacity to perform 200 tests a day and that they are willing to test any territorial entity that requests them, with priority for Barranquilla and the Atlantic.