“In 99% of cases, those infected recognize that they did not comply with prevention measures”

Mar del Plata already adds 1,209 positive for coronavirus since the pandemic started. The epidemiological situation suffered a turn at the beginning of July, when an outbreak broke out that professionals could not contain as of today 10% of the cases do not have an established link. Therefore, professionals insist on respect the main protection measures to be able to contain the contagions.

Juan Di Matteo, head of the Emergency Medical Care System (Same), assured that in 99% of positive cases people admit to having violated prevention measures. “It depends a lot on the frankness of the people. Many times the third or fourth call they recognize that they did not wear a mask, they shared a mate or a drink from the same bottle,” he said.

In this sense, the head of the Same in Mar del Plata indicated that since family and friends gatherings are prohibited, “many know that they have broken a law and do not whitewash it.” “If the person is not sincere, it really gets complicated“, he regretted in statements to 0223 Radio.

Faced with this situation, Di Matteo pondered the work of the researchers and stated that “when epidemiologists ask, it is with the aim of trying to cut the outbreak and the chain of infections “. “If there is one characteristic that this virus has, it is its rapid spread,” he emphasized.

Di Matteo confided that the personnel of the health system in Mar del Plata works these days “very intensely” to try to isolate positive cases as well as close contacts. Therefore, he called the population to “reinforce prevention measures” to try to stop the escalation of infections. “Even though we have no symptoms, if we get together and do the things we don’t have to do we can put other people at risk“he reasoned.

Covid-19 statistics in Mar del Plata

Of the total infections, 10% still do not have a clear epidemiological link, according to Di Matteo. The owner of the Same specified that 55% of the beds are occupied by patients suffering from other pathologies.

Furthermore, of the 504 active cases, andl 15% have the disease in hospital, of which only seven require mechanical respiratory assistance. Meanwhile, the rest remain in home isolation.