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New and more extreme measures were taken by the Government of Antioquia and the mayors of municipalities in the southwest, east, west of the department and the metropolitan area of Valle de Aburrá to contain the advance of the COVID-19
during the New Years holidays.
The announcement was made by the governor in charge of Antioquia, Luis Fernando Suárez, who indicated that the high number of daily infections (around 2,000) is added by the occupation of ICUs and the lack of tests to detect COVID-19 .
“The figures have an apparent reduction in the number of people who are reported day by day as positive, apparent because some laboratories are not performing all the processing of samples, without a doubt there are users who may have some type of affectation and are not consulting” Suarez said.
In addition, he emphasized the number of infections estimated by the authorities and the occupation of ICUs.
“But the observation we make is that the department continues with more or less 2,000 people infected daily, the mortality figures do not reduce and we also see with great concern that the occupancy of ICU beds continues to increase,” he said.
To make this more evident, he revealed that in all of Antioquia UCI occupancy is at 82.7 percent, in the metropolitan area of Valle de Aburrá at 86 percent, in eastern Antioquia at 96.7 percent. and in Medellín in 87 percent.
“All very high occupations,” said Suárez. Hours earlier, the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, had announced that because of the holidays on December 24, in which the biosecurity measures were not respected to prevent COVID-19 infections, 32 people entered in the last hours to ICUs for complications with the disease.
“Based on these figures, we had a dialogue with the national government, it recommended that we take new restrictive measures,” explained the governor in charge.
Measurements, then, are reflected in a wider curfew, from December 31 at 8:00 pm to 6:00 am on Sunday, January 3.
In addition, on Monday, January 4, the authorities will evaluate if they take similar measures for the festive weekend of Reyes.
And, said Suarez, it was determined extend the hospital red alert until Wednesday, January 13, At the same time, it was requested to maintain self-protection measures such as hand washing, physical distance and use of face masks.
“There are people who cheat themselves, taking the risk of catching it and doing it with their families,” he added.
In addition, he recalled that there is “a shortage of supplies and medicines, a fact that does not have a solution in the short term.”
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