In Babahoyo, the district education authorities are asked to postpone the progressive and compulsory return to classrooms.
Quevedo, Los Ríos
The slight increase in COVID-19 infections in the province of Los Ríos, especially in the cantons of Quevedo and Babahoyo, has led the representatives of the Emergency Operations Committees (COE) of those localities to establish new resolutions.
In the canton Quevedo, the local table determined measures, among those exhort the local council to promote the vaccination campaign in health centers, as well as also to dialogue with the owners of the city’s nightclubs so that through an act they commit to respect the closing hours of their businesses. So indicated the councilor and director of the COE, Lorena Rojas.
The mayor stated that in Quevedo there are two patients who receive adequate treatment for COVID-19 in the hospital of the Ecuadorian Social Security Institute (IESS) of Quevedo.
“There are fourteen infected people reported so far this month, of this figure two people are in critical condition in the Intensive Care Unit of the IESS hospital, and according to the doctors informed us, these two patients were not vaccinated and are native from the canton El Empalme”, Explained the councilor.
In addition, he said that night establishments can operate until 02:00 and that the prohibition of drinking on public roads is maintained.
On Babahoyo, the mayor of the city, Carlos German, announced that there are about 20 citizens reported with the virus this month, according to the report of the technical table 2 of health.
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Among the resolutions adopted in the COE of that canton, German said that the district authorities of the Ministry of Education are requested to postpone the progressive and mandatory return to the classrooms for a few weeks due to the slight increase in COVID-19 cases that are registers in the city.
“The last holiday, it seems, is taking its toll on us, for now all kinds of events that generate crowds of people are suspended. We ask that the return to classrooms of the students be analyzed in order to avoid further contagion ”, expressed German.
The first authority of the capital of Los Ríos also announced that according to figures from authorities that control vaccination in the city, only 18% of children between 5 and 11 years old are vaccinated and that, therefore, the students who return to the classroom are part of those groups vulnerable to contracting the virus.
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“We cannot be permissible in the face of this slight rebound in positive cases, we expect a positive response from the authorities of the Ministry of Education and also from the Babahoyo State Technical University, who this December 1 will return to face-to-face. We must remember that being vaccinated does not guarantee 100% protection, that is why we remain at a yellow traffic light ”, explained Mayor German.
Contagion curve
Franklin Bajaña, District Director 12D01 of the Ministry of Health, which includes the cantons Baba, Babahoyo and Montalvo, revealed that so far this month, the contagion curve indicates that there are 23 positive cases of the virus that have been registered.
The official mentioned that 80% of infected patients are from Babahoyo, Meanwhile he 15 % belonging to Baba and the 5% a Montalvo.
He also detailed that since October of this year an increase in the infected curve began to be observed and that the results of patients who two weeks ago underwent PCR tests (polymerase chain reaction) to rule out that they are carriers are still awaited. of the virus.
“There is no report of patients in the ICU wards of the IESS hospital and the Martín Icaza hospital of the MSP, however, we are a little concerned that the contagion curve is increasing, since older adults are not going to health centers for the third dose of the vaccine, “he said.
In this district, of the age group between 5 and 11 years, only 25 and 30% are immunized with the vaccine, while older adults reach 70%, reported the district director.
From February 2020 to November 22 of this year, according to data from the MSP, the province of Los Ríos adds 13,283 confirmed cases, Babahoyo 4,002 and Quevedo 2,713. The rest is distributed in eleven other cantons, among those Ventanas (1,412), Vinces (1,019) and Buena Fe (840). (I)
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