Like all the autonomous communities of Spain, Asturias continues to fight the pandemic of coronavirus with hard work. The worst stage of the disease seems to have passed, but that does not allow us to lower our guard at any time. The figures of the virus in Asturias they have not been as hurtful as in other regions and this is also due to the fact that measures were adopted that, in the medium term, have yielded good results.
On this report this Sunday The confidential, which gives the keys to why the pandemic has been contained in a better way in Asturias than in the rest of the Spanish regions. Behind it there is no trick, it is just constant work and precision to get it right.
The health sector of the Principality adopted from the first hour, even long before the outbreak of the virus in our country, a series of measures that have yielded results. The experts emphasize that the most effective was to get the quick tests right. That is to say, do not carry out tests in a massive way, but rather aiming well at who it is done, especially those people who have been close to a recently diagnosed case. The search was thorough, but it has paid off.
So much so that Asturias, if it were a country, would be in the Third place of the ranking of the OECD with 44.2 PCR tests per thousand inhabitants. Another success was the isolation of up to 200 health workers who had been in contact with infected or possible positive cases. At that time it might seem like an exaggeration, but it has been shown that it served to safeguard the health of many toilets.
The speed of strengthening was also key. Before he HUCA was approaching its peak occupancy, a field hospital had already been installed on the outskirts, as in Gijón and in Aviles. It also seemed that this was overrunning, but it was better to be safe than sorry.
Asturias has had many successes during the crisis of the coronavirus, the one for which there is still a long time to go before it is destroyed.
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