05/19/2021 10:56 AM
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Politics
Updated 05/19/2021 11:44 AM
After the record of cases and deaths reported in the last 24 hours since the start of the coronavirus pandemic and with an eye on the restrictions that will include the new Decree of Necessity and Urgency (DNU), the Minister of Health of the Nation,
Carla Vizzotti
, affirmed that the governors must "
generate measures and control them"
.
"The President (Alberto Fernández) will not hesitate to take the necessary measures to save as many lives as possible, but a national measure alone is not enough.
Governors
need to be
able to
generate the measures and control them," said
Vizzotti.
Speaking to
El Uncover Radio
, the national official stated that it is necessary for "the population to understand
that
whoever enters a respirator has an 80% chance of dying. "
"It is
evaluating intensifying the measures
based on the data (of coronavirus cases) of the coming days. It will be defined in consensus as always. There are measures that are in force and are not being complied with," he stressed.
Carla Vizzoti affirmed that "it is necessary for the governors to be able to generate the measures and control them."
Photo: Guillermo Rodríguez Adami
In this context, the Minister of Health stressed that "in the current DNU
the jurisdictions have the power to implement measures
, they do not have to wait for the national government to take them."
"We have been transmitting for weeks, when cases were just beginning to rise, the
importance of minimizing departures
regardless of the regulations. Avoid social gatherings, this is prohibited," he emphasized.
Along these lines, the head of the health portfolio stated that
"the problem is that social gatherings,
meetings in closed places
are still being held
" and questioned "the oversight by the jurisdictions."
In addition, he warned about the occupation of the intensive care units and stressed that "now diseases that come with winter and traffic accidents will be added to the beds, which last year there were no due to confinement."
The head of the health portfolio highlighted "the importance of minimizing outflows regardless of the regulations."
Photo: Ministry of Health
The increase in cases and what is coming
Referring to the number of deaths, which in the last 24 hours amounted to 745, Vizzotti pointed out: "We now have a very large difference with last year.
The fatality has decreased by approximately half.
With twice the number of cases we have a lower number of deaths when we analyze it per million inhabitants ".
When
asked
about the
projection
that the national government has on the
number of deaths
, she replied: "It will depend on several things: the age of the people who are infected, the variants with which they are infected.
It is not something exact, but of course, with a greater number of cases the number of deaths increases ".
"Yesterday there was no particular situation, hence the concern (for the number of cases and deaths). What is happening is that it stopped going down the curve and went back up in AMBA," explained Vizzotti.
In this sense, the Minister of Health warned: "Given this level of circulation of people and with this level of circulation of the virus, if we are not able to transmit to the population that the circulation has to decrease, that departures have to be minimized,
the The risk of continuing to have an increase in the number of cases is very concrete.
The community has normalized the number of cases and deaths. "
Finally, he described: "Of the people who are entering intensive care, the average age is 55 years and the vast majority, 95%, are not vaccinated."
JPE
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