Claudia López makes a diagnosis about the new measures in Bogotá with a view to the last days of 2020

This Saturday, December 26, after a meeting with her security, health and government teams, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, through her social networks, gave a piece of reassurance for Bogota citizens regarding the occupation of ICU in the capital and the increase in Covid-19 infections.

“We have notable improvements of decrease of more than 50% in affectation by gunpowder and insecurity and a stable situation in health and COVID19 so we will keep the measures adopted unchanged”, The president wrote on her Twitter account.

According to the president, despite acknowledging that in recent days there has been an acceleration in the number of infections, at this time the situation is under control and there have been no problems in the provision of health services for patients who have them. required.

“These days we have had a significant increase in cases, but the Emergency and Emergency Regulation Center notifies us that patients have been assigned to hospitalization and Intensive Care Units”the mayor said in the video.

Regarding the ICU occupancy indicator in the city, the president indicated that it is still acceptable at this time, despite the increase in cases.

“We continue to have an occupancy of 65% in the COVID ICU and at this moment we do not have a concern of risk for the hospital system due to the level of care we have had”, stated López.

Likewise, López explained that it will not be necessary to make the biosecurity measures that are already in force in Bogotá more extreme, but he invited citizens to continue respecting them.

“I want to continue asking people to take care of themselves, that we continue to comply with the peak and ID, that we try to lower crowds, some have left the city, others are arriving, so far we continue to have an ICU covid occupation of 65% and CRUE does not bring us major difficulties ”, precise.

Also, he asked them to continue implementing the DAR (Detect – Isolation – Report) strategy in homes.

“If you detect that you have symptoms, do not leave your house and report the symptoms to your EPS or 123”added the official, inviting to respect the extraordinary measures such as the peak and ID.

Finally, the mayor expressed her gratitude to the medical staff of Bogotá for their commitment and effort to face the pandemic and clarified that there has been no impediment to the provision of professional services to patients and breaks and vacation trips have been preserved. that were scheduled:

“A greeting of gratitude to the medical staff who continue to do a great job, a great exercise to take care of us. They also report that we are fulfilling the shifts properly, even with the scheduled rest and vacation departure shifts “, he expressed.

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