The director of Epidemiology of the Ministry of Public Health urged people to test and those who test positive to remain in isolation until cured. Dr Ronald Skewes also called for people to get their third and fourth boosters.
He explained that people who test positive for the coronavirus need to remain isolated to cut the transmission and interrupt the present rise in cases. He said it is important for all family members to be tested. If a student tests positive, the child should recover at home, and classmates should also submit to tests, he says.
The doctor understands that the present Covid-19 situation is not alarming since this increase of cases “is something to be expected.”
He told Diario Libre, that there comes a moment when there are so few contagions that there will be very sporadic cases, but that the virus will fluctuate as it forms the epidemiological curve. “Cases will go up a little, then go down; it depends a lot on if there is susceptible (population),” he emphasized. He specified that the susceptible population is currently the young population under 20 years of age, precisely the age group that has received the lowest proportion of vaccines.
According to the transmission dynamics, the doctor’s experience leads him to believe that the number of cases will continue to rise a little more. “When we were in the best of times, the transmission rate was 0.8% or 0.9%. What does it mean? Each case will infect less than one, but when cases go up, you’re going to infect one, one and a half, two. When you have more cases, you have more probabilities that each case will contaminate people,” he explained.
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Diario Libre
31 May 2022