Mexico arrived this Monday April 20 to 8 thousand 772 infections from Covid-19 coronavirus.
Dr. José Luis Alomía reported in the daily report that the death toll reached 712
Just yesterday Sunday, the account was at 8,261 infections and 686 deaths.
Assaults on nurses, in 12 states
At the conference, as many as 21 assaults on health personnel were reported in 12 states. In a subdued voice, the IMSS head of nursing, Fabiana Zepeda, He asked for respect for his guild.
“The uniform that I wear, I have worn it for 27 years, and I wear it with great pride. Today we have taken it off, and it has to do with limiting the damage to our person,” Zepeda said.
“Sit quietly, we are not going to infect anyone,” Zepeda concluded.
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Previously, the undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo López-Gatell Ramírez announced that there will be close to a thousand municipalities that will return to their normal activities by May 18
Through a video he posted on his Twitter account, he mentioned that progress has been made in flattening the coronavirus spread curve.
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He noted that given the progress and reduction of Coronavirus transmission that is occurring, there are areas of the country that do not have “significant transmission” which will allow municipalities where there are few or no cases of the disease, it is possible to eliminate sanitary security measures before May 30.
“When? Starting Monday, May 18, we will be able to identify that there are some municipalities and areas of the country where there is very low or no transmission of the new coronavirus, which are in different areas of the country but cover a very large number of municipalities. Almost a thousand municipalities of the 2,500 that Mexico has. At those sites we can control the disease, using other measures corresponding to phase 1, ”he said.
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He explained that this will allow these regions to return to normal as of that date. All the other municipalities will have to wait and from Monday June 1 they will be able to return to normal, but in an orderly manner according to what the health authority indicates.
“We are managing to reduce transmission, having fewer infections and therefore fewer people with Covid-19. We are missing fewer weeks, until May 30 or until May 18 only if you live in a low transmission municipality. If and only if we stay at home we will manage to keep this epidemic under control until we return to normal. ”
He explained that the federal government decided to extend the National Sana Distancia Day, which ended on April 30, one more month until May 30; However, he said, thanks to these measures, coronavirus infections are being reduced throughout the country.
“We are managing to reduce the infections, which we have called flattening the curve: the registration of all the new Covid cases that exist throughout the weeks and every day. We have a flatter curve, with fewer cases every day, and with this we are going to ensure that people who have severe Covid disease and require hospitalization find a place in the national health system, ”he said.
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