BCS CONTINUES UNTIL TODAY IS FREE FROM THE NEW CORONAVIRUS
“Institutions and citizens are called to join efforts in the daily implementation of practices and preventive measures to deal with the new coronavirus, where we can all join in building that better future that is achieved by maintaining health,” said the governor. Carlos Mendoza Davis at the head of an extraordinary session of the State Health Council.
Accompanied by the secretary of the branch in the entity, Víctor George Flores, as well as heads of different secretariats of the state government, and heads of the institutions that make up the health sector in BCS, Mendoza Davis said that the necessary provisions are taken to meet the challenge posed by the Covid-19.
The state president stressed that airports, ports, and road accesses will not be closed, since international public health specialists themselves have determined that mobility restrictions are not effective, due to the speed with which respiratory infections are transmitted, even before symptoms appear in carriers.
The governor commented that epidemiological surveillance will continue to detect suspicious cases early, where through confirmatory tests by the State Laboratory of Public Health, in the event of positive results, the patient is kept in home or hospital isolation, at the time of identify the people with whom they had contact, in order to assess them clinically and, if necessary, treat them.
In the Entity we are following the preventive and institutional response protocols indicated by the international and federal authorities, we have qualified health professionals and a sufficient medical infrastructure to guarantee prompt and effective medical care for South Californians, “explained the State Executive, mentioning that people with mild or severe acute respiratory disease, and who have been in contact with a case confirmed or under investigation by Covid-19, or with a history of travel or stay in China, Hong Kong, Korea, are considered suspicious cases. from the South, Japan, Italy, Iran and Singapore.
The WHO (World Health Organization) itself has indicated that all countries and their regions will eventually have the entry of the virus, but the important thing is to carry out work that reduces its spread, Mendoza Davis specified, pointing out that the half peninsula continues Until today, free of the new coronavirus, reiterating that in order to maintain this condition, social participation is necessary in public health strategies, which are based on the adoption of general hygiene measures that are effective and useful.