The designated Secretary of the Department of Health (DS), Carlos Mellado López, assured this morning, Monday, that the people of Puerto Rico and the tourists “roam free”.
“There are a lot of places and I’m going to make you very honest … the people are screwed up. People are screwed up in Puerto Rico and it’s clear you can’t be in two places at once,” the doctor said in an interview. with WKAQ 580am.
He added: “In La Placita (in Santurce) Friday was disastrous and we did not have the opportunity to be there as we were in Naguabo. This is an individual thing and at the moment, as I said, we want to open schools There are many municipalities that are in the red, especially if this behavioral pattern continues, there will of course be infections in that municipality, we must think about this carefully and be aware of it.
In addition, the secretary took action against people who visit the island in the middle of the pandemic.
“Tourists forget … in a place where there is no COVID and it is bad. In Puerto Rico we are trying to end the pandemic, we see how hospital admissions are declining every day … but we also see them partying at night, people without a mask, tourists who get by without a mask … “, he said.
On the other hand, the designated secretary confirmed that more than 450 thousand people have been vaccinated against the corona virus in Puerto Rico.
“This weekend was a brutal vaccination. We had 15 simultaneous centers. We started vaccinating since Wednesday. We went to a lot of the countryside, including Orocovis, Barranquitas and around there we went through many different cities.”