The Municipality’s Health Secretariat serves fixed and mobile points. In the last five weeks, the percentage of positive cases in the capital has increased.
The Ministry of Health of the Municipality of Quito established new points of attention for the health brigades, which are made up of doctors, nurses and health personnel. In these places, people receive free care, they are triaged to assess their condition and, if applicable, antigen tests or vaccines are given against COVID-19.
For the last week of the year, from December 27 to 31, it will be attended from 07:30 to 15:30, as follows:
- Mobile brigades (they change places every day)
Monday, December 27
Downtown: Plaza La Merced, Cuenca street and Chile
North: Labrador Trolley Station
Tuesday, December 28
South: Solanda, la J street and Chiriyacu sector.
Center: La Colmena Media neighborhood
North: Ecovía Río Coca Station
Wednesday, December 29
On: Solanda, calle la J
Rurality: Tumbaco, Health Center
North: Labrador Trolley Station
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Thursday, December 30
South: Solanda, la J street and Chiriyacu sector
Center: Nueva Aurora neighborhood
North: Ecovía Río Coca Station
Friday, December 31st
Center: Hermano Miguel Shopping Center, Calle Mejía y Mires
North: Labrador Trolley Station
South sector: Park of Diversities, Maldonado and Pujilí avenues; and El Recreo Station
North sector: Coliseo Deportivo de Calderón, María Duchicela street and 9 de Agosto
In the last five weeks, infections increased
Alfredo Olmedo, coordinator of strategies and brigades of the Ministry of Health, recalls that the intervention with the brigades began on July 22, 2020. Until December 2021, 109,000 antigen tests have been carried out, he points out; of that total, more than 22% have tested positive.
The coordinator clarifies that, for a correct interpretation of the current situation of the pandemic, the analysis must take the last two weeks of testing as a reference. In that sense, it indicates that in the past two weeks the level of positivity reached 10%.
“This has been increasing. Although it is not a highly worrisome positivity, it is striking that it is increasing. To say that an epidemic is controlled, according to the indications of the WHO (World Health Organization), the positivity of an event must be less than 5%. In this case, we have 10%, which has increased from the last five weeks. Before that, we had a positivity of 2 to 3% ”, describes Olmedo.
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The coordinator of the Ministry of Health attributes this growth to the behavior of the people, the holidays in the last quarter of the year, as well as the presence of the new omicron variant, which is highly transmissible.
From December 13 to 27, municipal medical personnel carried out 807 tests, of which 109 were positive.
Olmedo highlights that the health brigades have 230 people who are distributed in different parts of the city, which are chosen based on epidemiological reports and hospitals.
Medical personnel also travel the neighborhoods, from house to house, when they receive reports of hospitalized patients in serious condition. Likewise, communities are intervened with the help of neighborhood leaders. In the homes, an evaluation of the people, antigen tests and vaccination are carried out.
Ten sectors with the most positive cases
According to the Ministry of Health, from the intervention carried out in the last two weeks, the areas where the most positive cases have been detected are:
- Cotocollao
- People’s Committee
- Iñaquito
- Belisario Quevedo
- Freedom
- Magdalena
- Chimbacalle
- Chillogallo
- Chavezpamba
- Table (I)
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