Looks like the covid freaks are hell bent
on ruining Christmas for everyone down
here as well. Feel free to read the whole
article.
Source: ListinDiario
Las autoridades de Salud Publica elaboran un plan para la celebracion de las navidades, tomando en cuenta las medidas sanitarias frente al coronaviru
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As translated for our Spanish limited community members.....
The Public Health authorities draw up a plan for the celebration of Christmas, taking into account the sanitary measures against the coronavirus and the expressive culture of the Dominicans during their festivities.
The announcement was made by Eddy Pérez Then, advisor on Covid-19, together with Vice Minister Ivelisse Acosta and the Director of Epidemiology, Ronald Skews, in a press conference in which the Minister of Health, Plutarco Arias, was absent. who is in quarantine after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Pérez Then and Ivelisse Acosta explained that they are in the preparatory phase of that plan, of which they will give more details next week. It is emphasized in maintaining the tradition of a people, but enforcing restrictive measures in the event of excesses.
“We do not want to ignore that and we are evaluating how we are going to understand, firstly, what the culture of our people is and how to provide an alternative to what is coming. It is another challenge that we have as a population in general and as a State, ”said Pérez Then.
Officials showed satisfaction with the reduction in new cases and deaths from Covid-19, but emphasized that restrictive measures must be maintained to avoid outbreaks and outbreaks as in other countries that have had to return to the first restrictive phases.
They cited that the positivity rate has dropped to 12.85% and the fatality rate to 1.80%, when showing the statistics of epidemiological bulletins # 216 and number five of the situation in tourist areas.
The first reports two deaths for an accumulated of 2,206 deaths and 425 new infections, for a total of 122,368, with 20,141 active cases.
Another positive aspect that they highlighted is the hospital occupation of only 20%, although in intensive care units it is 30% and 18% of the ventilators are occupied.