The Mayor of Morovis, Carmen Maldonado González, responded to the report announced this afternoon by the Ministry of Health, placing this municipality on the list of 21 cities where face-to-face classes cannot be offered due to the high standard. of COVID-19 contamination.
The Department of Health (DS) report was prepared without notifying the municipal epidemiologists of the alleged increase they estimate is at the number two scale of the community, which represents 13.8% for the Morovis municipality. the SD, which is greater than 10%, Health classifies it in red as a “high level of community transmission,” Maldonado said in a press release.
“The truth is that only 25 positive cases have been registered in Morovis in the last 7 days, out of a total of 181 molecular tests performed, which we understand are very few tests,” said the mayor, accompanied by her advisor on the subject. , the former director of the State Agency for Disaster Management and Disaster Administration (now negotiated), Nazario Lugo Burgos, ”the city council said.
Maldonado also pointed out that there is no way to determine if there were cases in those 181 tests conducted of people who repeated the same thing, after testing positive more than once. “It is common, in cases where people undergo tests to go to work and various tests are done. It is important for our population to know that the Morovis Tracking Program is fully compliant,” he explains.
“In fact, the most recent report reveals 100% of the cases attended, showing our emphasis on managing the pandemic. We are 100% committed to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic and we are very careful with the numbers. That is why we are making this clarification, ”concluded the mayor.