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The departmental and national health authorities are evaluating whether the positive for COVID-19 that the test carried out in Cúcuta gave to a citizen from England corresponds to the new strain of the pandemic.
The revelation, known for The opinion Exclusively, it 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 in the department was made.
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.
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.
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 was also present, Victor 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, regarding 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.
In reference to the measures that have been adopted to contain the pandemic in Cúcuta, Mayor Jairo Tomás Yáñez explained to the members of the Regional Commission for Moralization of Norte de Santander that although multiple alternatives have been adopted to prevent the contagion from continuing to spread, people’s self-care is not the most effective.
He said that the multiple needs that the city suffers, such as poverty and lack of employment, among others, make the measures that have been adopted insufficient.
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