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Vergeles: “Holy Week has caused a very slight increase in its incidence”


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Covid in Extremadura

The second vice president and Minister of Health and Social Services, José María Vergeles, has indicated that Easter has caused a “very slight increase” in the incidence of coronavirus in Extremadura, although with a relationship between the 7-day rate and the rate of 14 days kept below 0.50, so “growth is either not going to be very high or we are going to be going up and down.”

To questions from journalists about the consequences of Easter in terms of Covid-19, the counselor considered that “they already have to be seen” because the omicron variant usually gives symptoms before other variants, in such a way that ” We should already be seeing a certain rebound in cases over the next few days with respect to Easter.

“In any case, we have to get used to a situation that is going to come with covid, of undulations in the incidence that we hope will not translate into serious illness or death, and that is what we have to try under all points of view”, highlighted the Extremaduran Minister of Health.

In this way Vergeles has spoken to questions from journalists this Friday in Badajoz about his assessment of the Covid-19 data presented by the region, according to which he has explained that this Friday it decreases and 86 people will be in hospital , four of them in the ICU, which means that it is at alert level 1, which is “the lowest risk that exists before moving to the risk of controlled circulation”, if the incidence data in people over 60 are combined and hospitalization data are combined.

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Therefore, he has indicated that they will be “vigilant as we are doing”, Vergeles has influenced, who has insisted: “vigilant as we are doing and addressing the pandemic with this new metric, so that we can make the decisions that have to be taken in each moment”.

Similarly, the counselor has warned that “nothing is irreversible” and that they have “always” said that if at any time the situation led them to have to change the strategy, either measures or adopt certain measures “that nobody doubts» that they will do it.

That is why, he said, they are measuring variants, the omicron and the lineage of the omicron continue to be the dominant variant, as they also continue to measure acute respiratory infections that are in society and those that are in hospitals, and incidences “not directly in the general population, and directly in the population over 60 years of age”.

“So we will continue at that rate, but at the moment we are at alert level 1 and obviously vigilant,” remarked Vergeles, who made these statements, to questions from journalists, on the occasion of his participation in the presentation of the anthology of the III Palliative Care and Mental Health Volunteer Micro-stories Contest, convened by the Volunteer Platform, in the auditorium of the Maternal and Child Hospital in Badajoz.


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