Gabriel's jab against COVID-19
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The jab -applied to physical distancing- can be the best defense against the deadly blow of COVID-19, said Gabriel Delvás, boxing teacher at the Fladio Álvarez School for Sports Initiation School in Isla de la Juventud.
The also coach of that combat discipline commented to the Cuban News Agency in the special municipality that due to its precision and effectiveness, the pineros should assume it with responsibility, along with other hygienic sanitary measures to get out of the complex epidemiological situation of the territory as soon as possible.
Dressed in a sanitary gown, gloves and a nasobuco, this sports worker is one of the volunteer messengers in the quarantine area of the first and only zone with a limited autochthonous transmission event, located in the La Fe Popular Council, 18 kilometers from the city Headboard.
The messengers, attached to the protocol of action, adequately fulfill their function of attending to the basic needs of the 11 quarantined homes, where 65 people reside with movement restrictions, said Daymarelis Bencomo, district delegate.
The community leader acknowledged the contribution of the workers of the El Jagüey gastronomic center, who collected funds to buy soft drinks and donate them to those families in isolation, who are also assured of the sale of yogurt, crackers, bread, meat , eggs, meats and fish, among other offers.
This is the Popular Council with the most positive cases confirmed to SARS CoV-2, followed by Abel Santamaría and Juan Delio Chacón, informed Dr. Israel Velázquez, sector director of Public Health in the second Cuban island.
He referred that the Temporary Working Group for the control of the new coronavirus in the territory reinforces the restrictive measures based on the complex epidemiological scenario of the last 15 days, with a report of 50 positive cases and an incidence rate of 59.9 for each 100,000 inhabitants, the fifth in the country, after those registered in Guantánamo, Havana, Santiago de Cuba and Matanzas.
Since the beginning of the outbreak - on November 23 with an imported one from the US - the territory has registered 92 patients, 13 of them with a source of infection abroad and 79 autochthonous, said the doctor.
He said that from the epidemic stage to date, the more than 11 thousand samples processed at the “Pedro Kourí” Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) 134 are positive, with a positivity rate of 1.0 percent.
It is necessary to comply with discipline in all the directed measures, related to physical distancing, the limitation of the movement of people and to be transparent at the time of offering information on the state of health, because it depends on individual responsibility that the fate of all is in good hands, said the health authority.