The coronavirus pandemic has claimed another six lives in the Valencian Community, four of them in nursing homes. According to the update of data given this morning by the Minister of Health, Ana Barceló, in the last 24 hours three people have died in the province of Castelló, one in Alicante and 2 in Valencia.
In the previous day, seven people died, four of them in nursing homes.
On the other hand, according to the data provided by the Councilor Barceló, there have been 144 new discharges and therefore there are already 9,089 people who have passed covid-19 and have been detected through 11 other new cases of coronavirus in Valencia, Alicante and Castelló. Thus there are already 3,497 active cases detected in the Valencian Community.
Of the total positive cases, there are 458 people hospitalized. Of these people, 82 need to remain in an ICU. According to the consellera, the consellera has highlighted, there have already been some 9,000 discharges since the pandemic was declared, which represents 65% of people infected with coronavirus. The increase in recent weeks of discharges has been 41.5%.
Likewise, the counselor has reported the death of a nursing care technician at the Hospital de Alcoi who had been hospitalized for close to a month and has conveyed his condolences to the family in these “difficult times”.
Since the start of the pandemic, a total of 10,740 infections have been confirmed using PCR tests, while the total number of deaths has risen to 1,351 and the number of people cured has already exceeded 9,000 (9,089).
Since the last data update, there have been 24 more discharges than yesterday in health professionals, bringing the discharges to 1,903. The total number of positives in professionals is 2,641 (1,817 by PCR and 824 rapid tests), of which 738 remain active (56 in Castelló, 306 in Alicante and 376 in Valencia).
On the other hand, 5,473 more tests have been carried out since yesterday. The total number of tests carried out for the detection of the coronavirus has been 211,959. of which 144,236 have been through PCR and 67,723 through rapid tests.
Regarding the PCRs, Barceló assured in the press conference this morning that the majority of health centers are carrying out tests to detect Covid-19 normally. “All instructions on the procedure to be followed were sent to all health departments on Friday and the departments have already distributed the necessary individual protection means and kits for the PCRs,” he said.
“Now this de-escalation is when primary schools have to follow up on people who have symptoms, and do the tests. And once it is positive, to be able to establish all the contacts they have had with different social groups,” Barceló indicated, who recalled that the protocol of the Ministry of Health entered into force yesterday “and until this moment it was not established to carry out PCR on the minor at home.”
“It is now,” he added, “when we have to follow up and send the results to the ministry. Starting yesterday is when we have to assess people who are suspected because they have symptoms, even if they are mild. We have enough extraction kits and laboratories to perform the tests. ” Barceló explained that according to the protocol established by the ministry, the centers will have 24 hours to extract the samples and carry out the PCR on people who present symptoms, even if they are mild.
According to the consellera clarified, people with mild symptoms will be tested. The primary care physician will contact these people to make an appointment to have the test removed and to have the results as soon as possible. “If someone is suspected of having contracted the virus, they have to report it because within 24 hours we have to have extracted the samples and take them to our laboratories to find out if they have tested positive and to make the contacts tour to proceed accordingly,” he added.
Barceló has not quantified how many PCR tests will be carried out in health and hospital centers, and limited himself to stating that “they will be necessary” and that “we will put all our capacity at 100 percent.” The consellera has also ensured that the ministry has not set some minimum tests that the Generalitat has to carry out to pass the phase.
The minister considered the meeting that she held on Monday afternoon with the health minister, Salvador Illa, “highly explanatory” and valued it “positively”. And, although he assured that, after this meeting, his conselleria reaffirmed himself in the claim that the entire Valencian Community is ready to go to phase 1 of the de-escalation, Barceló avoided clarifying on several occasions whether the Generalitat will request the ministry to take this step .
“We are not going to speculate or generate expectations. The reports are always cold and we must understand the epidemiological system, which is a benchmark throughout Spain, and we are already prepared. But we are not going to generate expectations, we are going to work,” they explained. .
What the minister did clarify is that the two reasons given by the ministry to keep a large part of the Valencian Community in Phase 0 have been the number of PCRs and “excessive mobility” in the metropolitan areas.
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