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CECOVID, which since its inception has managed nearly 3,000 positive cases and has tracked more than 15,000 close contacts, increases the number of trackers by 50 percent and the information system is recovered by megaphone.
The Councilor for Emergencies of the City of Lorca, Isabel Casalduero, together with the Councilor for Health, Jos ngel Ponce, have taken stock of the actions carried out from the Center for Tracking and Monitoring of those affected by COVID, CECOVID, as well as the point IFELOR sample extraction.
The Councilor for Emergencies has announced that "the City Council of Lorca continues to work and collaborate, if no fissure, with the rest of the administrations, as we have done since the beginning of the pandemic, to reduce the effects of the pandemic in Lorca and thanks to the implementation of the CECOVID, the structure for monitoring, tracking and coordination with other public organizations, in the almost four months that it has been in operation it has managed close to 3,000 positive cases, which has meant the tracking more than 15,000 people classified as close contacts.
" Casalduero has detailed that "to this must be added the follow-ups carried out on those affected, which means an average of 400 affected weekly in follow-up.
In total, there have been some 30,000 telephone communications to positive cases, close contacts, affected in monitoring, other public organizations, private companies, as well as associations and non-profit groups.In addition, more than 200 early warnings have been generated in educational centers and other groups, which has allowed cut possible shoots ".
"This work is being carried out by some thirty people belonging to the Municipal Emergency Service and Civil Protection volunteers who have carried out, in these four months, more than 12,000 hours of work as trackers to what the tasks performed by the four supervisors and the coordinator are added ".
The mayor has highlighted that "the CECOVID has been operational from Monday to Sunday, including holidays of Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year's Eve, New Year, Kings, in the morning and afternoon shift since the personnel who are attending this service know first hand the importance of the work of early detection of positive cases to avoid, in this way, their extension ".
"We must highlight the great and perfect collaboration and coordination of the City Council of Lorca, through CECOVID, has been had with area 3 of Health and with the general direction of Public Health".
Casalduero J dar has added that "with respect to the current situation, if with a general character from the beginning of the CECOVID operation, between 4 and 5 close contacts have been detected for each positive in our municipality, in the Currently, unfortunately, this average has doubled, detecting between 8 and 10 contacts of each of the positive cases that occur in Lorca, reaching up to 26 close contacts from the same person, a chilling figure as a result of what has Of course, in many cases, the meetings at Christmas.
" "Due to this third wave of increased infections by COVID, we are going to resume the Civil Protection plan against the pandemic that includes, as for the Emergency Service and Civil Protection of Lorca, to resume all the actions that are seen They are carrying out and, we have strengthened the Tracking and Monitoring Center by 50 percent, being, from now on, 9 jobs that will be working continuously until the figures of the incidence of the pandemic in our municipality ".
Isabel Casalduero has taken the opportunity to "make a call for the collaboration of the population, although the general rule is absolute cooperation, to help those who are working on the front line to tackle this health crisis" .
For his part, the Councilor for Health of the City of Lorca, Jos ngel Ponce, has indicated that "due to the worsening of the situation, the mayor already coordinated last week the Monitoring Committee of COVID in the municipality, and ultimately the strategy and the entire municipal device that is geared to face COVID in Lorca ".
"A device that, although it has been reinforced due to the strong rebound associated with Christmas celebrations and family reunions and gatherings, is a mechanism that has not stopped for a moment during the holidays, even when the Autonomous Community relaxed.
And lowered the restrictions at the beginning of December.
" Ponce has broken down that "this municipal strategy that has that fundamental element, pioneer in the Region, which is the CECOVID, together with the coordination of social services with health centers to care for the most vulnerable people, active surveillance by the Local Police and, of course, the sample extraction point that the Lorca City Council, in coordination with the Murcian Health Service, maintains at IFELOR ".
"Tracking and detection tasks are profiling and fine-tuning the cases detected, which is allowing tests to be carried out on the cases with the highest probability of contagion and in a controlled manner.
So far, and since we installed all this infrastructure in IFELOR at the service of the Murcian Health Service of the Ministry of Health of Murcia, around 35,000 PCRs have been carried out ".
The mayor has made "a new call to the responsibility of all.
The best vaccine continues to be to continue to extreme sanitary measures, which include always wearing a mask, extreme hand hygiene, maintaining social distance, reducing social interactions except as essential, and also increase ventilation indoors.
" "In addition, the information system by megaphone has been put into operation throughout the municipality of Lorca to continue making the population aware of the importance of complying with sanitary security measures." Jos ngel Ponce recalled that "if you have symptoms compatible with COVID, or have been in contact with something positive, you should stay at home and contact your family doctor.
Also important Remember that if you are waiting for both the performance of a PCR or an antigen test both for its result, be it positive and negative, you must remain isolated.
And, of course, if you are positive quarantine must be kept for 14 days, and if it is negative, but it has been close contact with a positive, it must be quarantined for 10 days.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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