09/23/2020 - 9:09
Clarín.com
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The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, assured that the City of Buenos Aires "avoided the worst scenario" of the coronavirus pandemic, although he insisted that it was not over yet and asked to maintain individual care.
"The worst scenario for this pandemic
would have been that the health system did not have the opportunity to provide humane care
, with dignity and professionalism, to all the people who have become ill. It seems to me that this scenario will
no longer occur in the City of Buenos Aires and there is quite a guarantee of that,
"the minister reported this Wednesday morning.
In that sense, he justified that currently "there is an occupation of 54% of intensive therapies in the public sector, the private sector has decompressed and is at 70% of occupation, with which I think that this point that would have been discouraging probably no longer is going to happen in the City. "
Regarding the evolution of the epidemic curve, he explained that "the first days of September has had
a slow and systematic decline
" and that "we must wait this week to define it as a definitive decline."
"If this is confirmed, it will probably lead to a number of cases that will not disappear, but will be less than what we have been having," the minister remarked.
And he added: "We are not going to end this epidemic now but we need to bring the number of cases to a lower value, which makes fewer people sick and allows us to isolate more precisely to be able to resume activities with protocols until we have a definitive solution."
"
Nothing has finished, you have to continue taking care of yourself,
there should be no meetings in closed places, you have to wear chinstraps, social distancing," Quirós asked citizens.
Regarding the steps to follow, Quirós considered that "a path must be built between the decrease in cases and the definitive solution to continue learning together to behave in a safe way and avoid having a regrowth", as happened in many countries of Europe.
"After a long plateau of about 9 to 10 weeks with a slight rise that, August 3 was the day with the highest number of cases and the last week that has also been intense, from there the cases have been slowly but systematically decreasing and last week there were about a thousand cases per day, "Quirós reported.
From this it is that he clarified, before the claim of certain sectors such as gyms and swimming pools to work again, "to the extent that these numbers are consolidated and we continue to decline", activities can be expanded outdoors or in spaces closed but with "strict protocols and adequate ventilation".
Asked about the return to classes of the 6,500 boys and girls registered by the City who lost total ties with the school in the six months of the pandemic, Quirós said that in the meeting with the Nation there was "a very clear vision to build a path and a methodology to move forward and be clear about the next steps in educational terms ".
And he continued: "The first major agreement is that the epidemiological conditions are not yet in place to open schools and classrooms to all children, it is something on which we all agree.
Quirós said that the Ministry of Education of the Nation suggested some protocol changes that the City will evaluate these days and that the Minister of Education, Nicolás Trotta suggested "occupying the open courtyards of the schools" and that, for the return to the classrooms, there should be a "set of indicators for the whole country".
Later, Quirós was consulted about the incidents during the demonstration of a group of nurses in front of the Buenos Aires Legislature where some of them were injured after a confrontation with the City Police and stated: "The image I saw gave me a lot of pain."
Although he clarified that the fact is being investigated, he said: "Initially it was a group of nurses to deliver a request that was received in the Legislature and then a second group forced and tried to enter and the pushing and tense situations that we saw occurred everyone".
"We are going to continue talking and working on how to improve and what they support and want and what we consider to be the most appropriate," Quirós clarified and said that from the City they aspire that "health workers are well, be respected and recognized, feel that what they do is valued in every way, feel an appropriate work space and put the focus on caring for people ".
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