translated from Spanish: There is a risk of COVID uptick by deconfunding: Lopez-Gatell

With the change of traffic lights from the COVID-19 pandemic to orange and progressive deconfunding, there is a risk of an uptick in the epidemic, Health Undersecretary Hugo Lopez-Gatell acknowledged at this Saturday’s conference.
The official said it is unrealistic to think that a disease is over the course of a disease, as well as to think that its extinction can be accelerated, but that it is something that will be maintained and that is why certain measures must be followed to reduce contagion as much as possible.
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“We have to reach an appropriate equilibrium point, and at this point when in some states it is already beginning to appreciate, and that means the orange color at the traffic light, a reduction in the number of daily hospitalizations, a reduction in the number of daily cases, a hospital occupation that starts to be enough, then we start to deconfine, to open. How, in a way that must be orderly, progressive, careful and keeping a close watch, every day we do, of the epidemic behavior in each of the territories of the country,” he said.
He therefore emphasized that the new normal means that contact with other people continues to be avoided, that activities that are not urgent such as meetings with family or friends are postponed, even though it has been a long time since they have been seen, and that the head cover is used whenever there can be no distance, to avoid contagion as much as possible, and that businesses gradually reopen.
“It does not mean that we are exempt from the risk of the epidemic rebounding anywhere in the country. It can happen, it has happened in other countries. In other countries what they have done is: the moment they detect that the epidemic is beginning to rebound, they backtrack on some of the measures and restrictions are set, starting with those activities that involve the most people in the public space,” he warned.
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It recalled that, for example, with influenza A H1N1 virus, which emerged in 2009 and also became a pandemic, there had been regular outbreaks until 2014.
He also detailed that 28,000 people die in Mexico each year from influenza or pneumonia, although this latest diagnosis is not always reached, and that coVID-19 disease will now be added to the respiratory diseases that cause these deaths.
Questioned about the follow-up to recovered patients, he said a collaboration agreement was made with the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER) to show the public pulmonary physiotherapy exercises that can help the recovery of those who had the disease in a serious way and had damage to lung tissue.
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