The Temporary Working Group for the control of the new coronavirus in Isla de la Juventud called this Friday to increase epidemiological surveillance in light of the increase in the number of confirmed positive cases of COVID-19.
To apply the established protocols, community actors, including district delegates, under the aegis of the health authorities have to act in a coordinated manner in the surveillance of the epidemic, said Liván Fuentes Álvarez, president of the Municipal Assembly of People's Power.
He added that the identification of travelers' homes can help to minimize the possibility of triggering a situation of contagion due to indiscipline due to the low perception of risk, and increase the number of active outbreaks of which 11 are registered.
The doctor Israel Velázquez Batista, sector director of Public Health, reported that the territory -since November 23 to date- accumulates a total of 53 patients infected by SARS-CoV-2, the cause of the lethal disease, of them 12 imported and 41 autochthonous for 77.4 percent of the total.
Although the special municipality is in the stage of new normality along with the provinces of Sancti Spíritus, Las Tunas, Holguín and Granma, in tonight's work session it was decided to apply some of the measures of the autochthonous transmission phase to avoid the spread of the disease, he said.
He emphasized that due to the current clinical-epidemiological scenario, whose incidence rate is 31.2 per hundred thousand inhabitants in the last seven days, in a territory with little more than 83 thousand people, it is imperative to restrict mobility, regulate access to the main towns and attend to the situation of the homeless.
Zunilda García Garcés, first secretary of the Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, said that the territory can cut off the transmission of COVID-19 in the shortest possible time, for this the locals must discipline the package of measures because the number of infected today it is higher than that registered in the epidemic phase (42).
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