On Rubén Darío street, a crowd of people can be seen walking without keeping their distance
COVID-19 cases are on the rise in El Salvador, but it seems irrelevant to many looking for Christmas and New Year’s purchases. The streets are crowded and people forget to apply the health measures of distance to avoid contamination.
Some salespeople in downtown San Salvador said that “they don’t use masks because the customers don’t understand me “, an action that could endanger the health of the Salvadorans arriving on the scene.
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In Rubén Darío Street, a crowd of people are observed without keeping their distance, and some pedestrians anxiously confirm: “Because there is no pandemic”, upon seeing the agglomeration of people.
But not all salespeople work without a mask. There are some small stalls that have posted signs asking for mandatory use to take care of the family. Others insist on it with expressions: “Put on the mask, the worms are hungry.”
Company based in Rubén Darío. Photo Jorge Reyes / EDH
Days ago, Health Minister Francisco Alabí said that “there is still a slight increase in the number of confirmed cases.” At the time, epidemiologist Ricardo Lara wonders that the increase in the number of cases is due to the lack of a government prevention plan that focused on a curative rather than a preventive strategy.
“You cannot speak of a second wave, because we have not finished leaving the first wave; what has existed is an incalculable epidemiological lack of control, because they are committed to concealing information, they have committed to curative management and they have not done anything preventive “ Lara asks.