Coronavirus: Daniel Gollán assured that "adding activities is unthinkable today" and does not rule out "closing again"

08/06/2020 - 12:04

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The Minister of Health of the province of Buenos Aires, Daniel Gollán, affirmed this Thursday that with the current numbers of coronavirus infections in the area in the AMBA "it is unthinkable to add activities" and warned that, if a "situation is reached" Critical "With intensive care beds, you must" push the red button and close again. "

" As we are today, it is unthinkable to add activities ; you have to see in a few days how it comes and we have to have the red button handy to press it if the cases skyrocket," the Buenos Aires minister said today in statements to Futurock radio .

Likewise, Gollan said that the story will change when the vaccine arrives or if it is proven that the autoimmune serum is effective, since "it will allow us to manage the pandemic in another way", but he clarified that, while these resources are not available, "there is nothing else to do".

"We are with one eye permanently looking at the occupation of beds in intensive care to see if a critical situation is reached," said the Buenos Aires official, while warning: "If a critical situation is reached, we will have to press the button extra red one more time , and close again. "

In this sense, Gollan remarked that "they want to install that, from now on, it is all openness and it is not."

"The only way to avoid when we are very close to the saturation of the system, is to do something different and it will be necessary to remove circulation based on activities that are being allowed," he said.

The minister referred to the images that were released this Thursday about a group of people without masks on the sidewalk of a bar in the Recoleta neighborhood and said: "I saw that photo and I thought it was 'fake', there really is one tendency of a very big irresponsibility of a sector of the society , but one cannot appeal only to that ".

"I must also say that there are a lot of people who are taking care of themselves and leave only for what is essential. Although with 30% not complying, that can happen," he said, referring to the rise in cases.

In this framework, Gollan recalled the Sars-Cov-2 "is extremely effective in its ability to infect" and remarked that in Argentina the same thing that happened in the rest of the world did not happen, in terms of installing itself "explosively because it quickly installed quarantine. "

"The virus will try to spread all the time and since here (in AMBA) is the bulk of social and economic activities, it is obvious that it will try to run to other places in the province and the country. The day we have the vaccine , the problem is going to end , meanwhile, we have to live with this, "he said.

However, Gollan said that there is "a hint of hope in the hyperimmune serum (of equine origin)" that is developing, because it would allow "controlling patients who would avoid going to therapy."

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