translated from Spanish: Minister of Science: “We have a duty to add up the best specialists”

At the COVID-19 Social Bureau meeting convened by Interior Minister Gonzalo Blumel in La Moneda, the Minister of Science, Technology, Knowledge and Innovation, Andrés Couve, raised the concerns of the national scientific community for the management of the health emergency.” The scientific community has made itself available to the Government and we have a duty to add to the best specialists in health management, biological studies, innovation and experts in mathematical projections to address this epidemic and to flatten the contagion curve. To this end, the articulation between the scientific world and the Government is essential, because timely and transparent access to data is key to modeling different scenarios and acting in time with the best available evidence,” Couve said at the meeting, in which also involved the authorities of the Ministry of Health, representatives of the Medical College, mayors and universities, the minister detailed the work that the Ministry of Science is doing since the beginning of this pandemic.” We are in coordination with universities and research centres to expand the institute of public health’s diagnostic network, to provide quality information for decision-making, coordinate innovation initiatives, strengthen the logistics of government actions and generate the best projections against different epidemiological scenarios thanks to the collaboration of data and biomedicine specialists,” the Secretary of State added.He also stressed the importance of this social table that will session every Tuesday and Friday for the duration of the emergency and stressed that “it is important to reiterate that alongside the measures we are pushing, we need the responsibility and commitment of the public.”



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