05/05/2020 14:55 – Updated: 05/05/2020 15:18
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The ‘counselor’ of Health of the Generalitat, Alba Vergès, has announced that Barcelona and its metropolitan area may be left out of phase 1 of the lack of confidence in the coronavirus epidemic, as explained this Tuesday after the Consell Executiu press conference. This delay of the most populated areas could be extended to the metropolitan area, which would leave out cities of the importance of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat or Badalona.
“We have not yet transferred the proposal to the Ministry of Health,” Vergès has warned, but points out that “we must watch over the following phases and the evolution of the contagion ratio and how they evolve in seven and fourteen days.”
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“We are now in all health regions at a rate of transmissibility below 1 and that is what we have to ensure that in the following phases that in community life, social life, does not imply a regrowth, “says Vergès and adds:” We are analyzing region by region and we are Barcelona city. North and south metropolitan area. Each of these regions it has its peculiarities. In areas with more population density, it is more worrisome and with more mobility, more people can gather. “
The head of the Salut portfolio also pointed out that “at the moment there are 545 patients with covid-19 in the ICU.” “That’s a 132% of our capacity standardized of our public system. We’re in a good trend“he points out. Another key is primary care in case detection and follow-up of contacts and follow-up of contacts to control the epidemic. But, according to the ‘consellera’, “any proposal will first go through Procicat, the emergency committee of the Generalitat.”
State of alarm
Regarding the renewal of the state of alarm, the “consellera” of the Presidency, Meritxell Budó has settled that with that “you cannot give support to the state of alarm if you don’t return the powers to manage unconfiguration. “
In any case, Budó did not want link the 16 billion and its fund to support the CCAA to support the state of alarm. “You cannot mix both things,” he concluded.
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For Vergès “it has nothing to do with the way the Alarm status has been applied, with the Recentralization of functions which has meant, when what was needed was coordination and collaboration. “
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