{"id":140700,"date":"2020-04-20T12:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T12:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=140700"},"modified":"2020-04-20T15:51:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T15:51:06","slug":"santiago-meets-to-coordinate-the-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/santiago-meets-to-coordinate-the-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Santiago meets to coordinate the fight against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"322\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Monumento-de-Santiago-El-Nuevo-Diario-e1584562337862.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-137913\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Public Health Minister, Dr. Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas announced the meeting on Saturday, 18 April 2020 in Santiago of government representatives with representatives of the province, city, business and industry and civic society to present the health authorities\u2019 plan for stepped up actions in Santiago to combat the Covid-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santiago Mayor-elect Abel Martinez says the implementation of a more effective plan to stop the coronavirus is urgently needed. Mart\u00ednez, who in the 14 March election won his bid for reelection, hosted the &#8220;Santiago Covid-19 Contingency Meeting&#8221;, with the participation S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas, Dr. Alejandro B\u00e1ez, advisor to the Executive Branch on public health and disaster systems, mass emergencies and critical care, Senator Julio C\u00e9sar Valent\u00edn, and provincial Governor Ana Mar\u00eda Dom\u00ednguez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also present were representatives of Santiago&#8217;s business groups, directors of public and private health centers, universities, the military, police and representatives of civil society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mart\u00ednez stressed the importance of the city as it is \u201cthe radius of action of the surrounding provinces.\u201d He said people from all around the center of the country converge in Santiago seeking medical care. \u201cWe have to work in coordination to mitigate the situation Santiago is going through,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he is confident that if Santiago manages to structure a body of work with the participation of all sectors, this will serve as an example for the rest of the region to follow to curb the spread of the disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2020\/04\/19\/613885\/abel-martinez-plantea-que-se-necesita-con-urgencia-un-plan-para-frenar-el-coronavirus\">Listin Diario<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/04\/20\/salud-busca-area-de-aislamiento-en-santiago\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 April 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Health Minister, Dr. Rafael S\u00e1nchez C\u00e1rdenas announced the meeting on Saturday, 18 April 2020 in Santiago of government representatives with representatives of the province, city, business and industry and civic society to present the health authorities\u2019 plan for stepped up actions in Santiago to combat the Covid-19. Santiago Mayor-elect Abel Martinez says the implementation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/santiago-meets-to-coordinate-the-fight-against-covid-19\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140700"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140744,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140700\/revisions\/140744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}