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Navarra pays for "no parties" and leisure in private venues

2020-10-21T12:33:51.323Z


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The Plaza del Castillo de Pamplona beats in the rain as if almost nothing was happening.

There are hardly any signs in the heart of the capital that allow a glimpse of the seriousness of the situation.

And that the Navarrese continue receiving bad news in full countdown to close the community.

The latest data add 578 new infections after performing 4,156 PCR tests and antigen tests, 13.9% positive when the threshold to consider the pandemic controlled is 5%.

Navarra will be the first autonomy to close abroad to try to stop the transmission of the coronavirus in the second wave of transmissions.

At 00.00 on this Thursday you will not be able to enter or exit because the accumulated incidence triples the average for the rest of Spain.

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This false normality is only disturbed by a group of hoteliers from Pamplona who protest with a pan over the closure of the hotel business as of Thursday.

"If that could be done," says a waiter in one of the historic places in the center, while on the radio the mayor of the city, Enrique Maya, points out that the young people are really responsible: "The problem is in the bottles and in the floors, ”he accuses.

However, the question of why this happens to the Navarra community remains the dilemma of many of its neighbors.

The government knows that they are facing the last chance to reverse the curve before having to face much tougher decisions such as neighborhood closings or a curfew.

The professor of microbiology at the Public University of Navarra Gerardo Pisabarro believes that there is not a single factor that explains the situation in Navarra, but he is convinced that the way to enjoy the leisure of many young people and middle-aged gangs, behind closed doors, in places with little ventilation and in which you have to speak louder because of the level of the music, such as in the bajeras (local)

or gastronomic societies, is one of them, which joins the celebration of the so-called "no parties" from July to mid-October.

“This concept of

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is not imaginable in other places with a better climate, where you live and enjoy yourself more on the street, and there is a very dangerous psychological factor and that is that with family or friends nothing can happen to you, and that is not true ”, he warns.

There is data that supports it.

By age, the majority group of infections in this second wave is 45 to 59 years old, with 25%, and 30 to 44 years old, with 22% of the total.

But if we add the group of those under 15 years of age and those between 15 and 29, 35% of the new infected are in the second wave.

The same thing happens in senior colleges, or even in schools, although the college positivity rate in Navarra has been only 8%.

“Navarra is a university city to which many people come and with a small size, like Granada, in which there has been very high data and it is also a university city, and it is possible that some of the cases come to stay and here extend ”.

"It is true that there is a statistic in which Navarra has long presented worrying levels above 5% that is set as the threshold to have a pandemic controlled", acknowledges the researcher of the Navarrabiomed public center Julián Librero, referring to the positive PCR of the set of those carried out.

But he warns that to interpret it, it is necessary to know that the alert system set up in primary and hospital care is very effective and increases the probability that positives will be detected.

"A second aspect is that massive tests that dilute the positivity rate have not been used too much," he warns.

Navarra is the autonomous community that carries out the most covid-19 diagnostic tests with respect to its population: 480.39 per thousand inhabitants when the state average is 247.05 per thousand inhabitants, which in the opinion of specialists does that the pandemic photograph is much sharper than in those that are made general screens.

All the specialists consulted assure that in Navarra the pandemic is not out of control and that the result of this is that the pressure on the hospital system is still low, although increasing, week by week.

The calm of the center of Pamplona has nothing to do with the activity of the Navarra hospital complex.

Ambulances go in and out without a break.

Jesús Castilla, a researcher at the Institute of Public and Labor Health of Navarra, a specialist in epidemiological surveillance, argues that the spread of the flu can give guidelines as to why Navarra has such high numbers of coronavirus.

In his opinion, temperature and humidity is another factor.

“A Navarrese will have an average of 10 flu throughout his life while a citizen of Seville will not have more than six.

And that is partly due to environmental conditions, the same ones that make people organize part of their leisure time in other ways and force them, in colder areas, to get indoors and therefore more exposed to contagion ”, Explain.

"When there are flu peaks here they are also higher, and now we are ahead, as before was Madrid or Catalonia," he reflects.

Among the statistical data managed by Navarrabiomed and explained by researcher Julián Librero, those that warn that a significant percentage of infections occur inside homes, something worrying when we face winter and even more so when 10% of the population lives in coexistence units of five members or more.

They also describe in the case of Navarrese, the incidence that the disease is having in the population in relation to its resources.

"The unemployed, without income, minimum income, etc., have a 390% higher risk of contracting the virus than those with incomes between 18,000 and 100,000 euros per year."

Information about the coronavirus

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- This is how the coronavirus curve evolves in the world

- Download the tracking application for Spain

- Search engine: The new normal by municipalities

- Guide to action against the disease

Source: elparis

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