“The virus kills, but the economic situation also kills us. The world has changed, now we all have to learn to live with the virus, “said Health Minister Pilar Mazzetti.
He mentioned that the situation is real with respect to the increase in cases, those that have continued inside the COVID-19 Command, but that at the same time he affirms has allowed an expansion in beds, however, there are problems.
“Sometimes it doesn’t match the bedding and breathing equipment,” he said.
The strategy for care is not only to have more beds, but also to care at the first level of care, “people move and care centers are fixed,” he said.
Go to forty? It does not seem to be the formula that Mazzetti will follow, at least not the immediate one, “one has to find a balance between the virus and our income, which is increasingly the lowest as a country.”
Figures
Faced with the questioning of the figures and the information provided by the Situational Room COVID-19, Mazzetti maintains that it has been very clinical, and we have to work on a different proposal, “we have to make it more digestible”, he maintains, in the same way as it has been done with the applications for beds and oxygen requirements.
The analysis of the newspaper The Financial Time estimates that Peru has more than 45 thousand deaths, and that it opens the door to the suspicion of underreporting of COVID-19 cases.
Is correction possible? Mazzetti bluntly responds that, “this is not possible, because the information has to be known and to be compared internationally, you have to have figures for comparison with molecular diagnostics,” he says.
Going for more molecular tests, is the ongoing task that Mazzetti has and that highlights that they have already been purchased, but at the same time also have a locally produced stock.
“We are very close to having the diagnoses in the country and to having more and more molecular tests,” he said.
With this, he hopes to have better statistics.
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