10/26/2020 9:10 AM
Clarín.com
Society
Updated 10/26/2020 9:10 AM
The Buenos Aires Minister of Health, Fernán Quirós, affirmed this Monday that the coronavirus contagion curve in the City "is decreasing", but he announced that we must work "together on how to mitigate or avoid a potential re-outbreak."
The official referred to the possibility of the City going through the same outbreak situation that Europe is going through.
"
It is the most relevant issue
in terms of health strategies that we will have in the coming months," he said in this regard.
At a press conference, he explained: "The City has a curve that is descending and if we continue to do things as we have come, surely we will be able to finish descending the curve."
However, he indicated: "We already have to be working together on
how to mitigate or avoid a potential regrowth
. It has been shown in Europe that after a first curve, the conditions can return to make a regrowth. We must work on that".
In this sense, he explained that "the City Government will continue to intensify and expand the tracking and testing because it is an essential instrument in mitigating the regrowth."
And he clarified the importance of
avoiding "super contagion spaces
, that is, those that are poorly ventilated with little air volume and that there are many people who stay a long time."
"The longer people are in a poorly ventilated place, any of them that is infected has the potential to infect everyone. We must work on how we can recover and resume those issues that we still have to give," he concluded.
On the other hand, Quirós referred to the
use of air conditioning
: "This discussion is for public places, not for people's homes because the cohabitants are there and there is no risk."
He explained that the places that are being enabled in the City such as restaurants, gyms, shopping malls and museums "are being documented by specific technicians to guarantee to all the people that the teams take air from outside, do cross ventilation with air circulation and have natural ventilation ".
"If there is central equipment that has the capacity to inject outside air under pressure, that is very good because if there is an open window on the other side, a natural external air current is generated that quickly runs those clouds of air pollution," he added.
And he closed: "We will go place by place approving the authorizations. That is very different from a closed place that is not ventilated."
A total of
449 new cases and 37 deaths
from coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours in the City, which raised the number of deaths in the district to 4,907 and to 144,331 that of infected since the arrival of the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the occupation of intensive therapy beds is 39.1%, reported the Buenos Aires Ministry of Health in the daily report on the health situation.
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