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The revelation, known exclusively by the newspaper La Opinion, was aired last Friday, December 29 at the meeting held by the Regional Commission for Moralization of Norte de Santander, where the annual assessment of the coronavirus pandemic was made in the Department.
In a report signed by the departmental comptroller and president of said commission, Sergio Enrique Rosas Ramírez, the departmental authorities were asked about the possibility of the presence of the new strain of COVID -19 from the United Kingdom.
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Faced with this request, the director of the Departmental Institute of Health (IDS), Carlos Martínez, reported that officially there is no confirmatory report, “however, the institute has been following up on two cases, one of a person of the male gender , who arrived on December 12 from England, and after being tested last week the result was positive for COVID-19 “.
The official added that this person, whose identity was kept anonymous, is in isolation and being followed.
It should be noted – the report of the Regional Commission for Moralization of Norte de Santander emphasizes that this test was sent to the National Institute of Health (INS) to rule out that it is this strain.
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Martínez informed the aforementioned commission that additionally it was known that on December 19, a family nucleus of 4 people from England arrived in the city, a group that to date has no symptoms.
“They were convinced of the importance of performing the verification test for the existence of the virus, so this test was carried out on December 29, 2020 and is awaiting the results, for verification with the Institute National Health. The community and travelers are expected to clearly express their place of origin and understand the importance of isolation, ”said the director of IDS.
Regarding the vaccination plan for COVID-19, which was also discussed at the meeting held by the Regional Commission for Moralization of Norte de Santander, in which the governor in charge, Víctor Bautista; the mayor of Cúcuta, Jairo Tomás Yáñez; Juan Agustín Ramírez, director of the ESE Imsalud and a representative of the Erasmo Meoz University Hospital, the authorities revealed the serious misinformation problem generated by the alleged non-participation of the department in the national vaccine plan.
As it was concluded, this statement “is clearly inappropriate and tendentious, since the department has already assigned 346,000 vaccines, available in February and to be applied free of charge.”
The health authorities mentioned, with respect to the refrigeration of the Pfizer vaccine, that they have the planning and arrangement of deep freezers and, of course, the assurance that in addition to the deep freezers the vaccine allows handling from 2 ° to 8 ° centigrade for five days.
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