The governor Wanda Vazquez He assured today that he prefers not to reverse the economic reopening of the country despite an increase in positive cases of COVID-19.
After a press conference at the Mayagüez Plaza Hotel in that municipality, the president assured that the Monday will hold a meeting with the medical sector — including the task force médico– to assess the increase in cases of coronavirus.
“I’m going to look and I will listen to the recommendations of the doctors. I would not want to return, because I know the economic impact it has had …We ourselves cannot back down what we have accomplished. So I ask all those people who are enjoying that there is openness to put their cooperation and use the mask, “said the governor in an aside with the media and as published on Facebook Live by the media The West Island.
Today, the Health Department reported 84 confirmed cases – through molecular testing – positive for the virus, which brings the number of confirmed cases to 2,435. While in the row of probable cases to the coronavirus —through rapid or serological testing— it totals 6,931 probable cases. Likewise, eight deaths were reported due to COVID-19, which increases the death toll to 167.
Vázquez, likewise, insisted that it is responsibility of citizens avoid the increase in infections by the coronavirus. “The increases in COVID – I have said it from the first moment – is not the responsibility of the government, it is the responsibility of each citizen and of each company to comply with security protocols. So if we comply, companies also have to comply with security protocols to avoid taking aggressive measures and then we have to be closing deals, “he added.
The president also set responsibility for the increase in infections in Puerto Ricans who come from the United States and who carry out family meetings without due precautions. “The call to all those who have family members – because most of the increase in COVID cases are people who come to celebrate different activities with their families – tell your family members that if it is not an emergency, stay there until you have a negative.
“It is an individual responsibility. Here we are all wearing a mask. Wherever I go the first thing I ask is that they have to have a mask. Whoever does not have it or cannot be there or has to put it on,” said the president, who has been criticized for participating in numerous public activities without the mask and without maintaining physical distance.
Even today the municipality of Yauco announced that it registered a family outbreak of COVID-19 infections. According to the Southern Municipality’s Case Tracking and Assistance program, of the total of 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, “12 they belong to a family outbreak, plus two additional contagion lines. “
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