The president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD), Dr. Waldo Ariel Suero called for a 14-day total lockdown for the entire country. Suero said only a 24-hour quarantine would be able to stop the spreading of the virus. The president of the Dominican Medical Association (CMD) criticized that Dominican hospital physicians and nurses are working without the adequate protective equipment and this means they may be infected and then spread the disease.
Suero said that the worse is yet to come if drastic measures are not taken. He said the association estimates that around 50 physicians have tested positive. He said most have caught the disease when working in hospitals.
Infectologist Clemente Terrero, who is the coordinator for infectious diseases of the CMD, said the disease is extremely lethal. “We have to tell people that whoever is infected could die, but if they don’t die, a relative, a son, their father, their mother, their grandfather, their neighbor, or their friend can die, and that’s why we have to take preventive and precautionary measures, that is, raise awareness,” he explained.
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30 March 2020