translated from Spanish: ‘COVID data is not to make us proud, but it could have been worse’: Alcocer

Jorge Alcocer Varela, Secretary of Health, noted during his appearance on Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies that Mexico ranks 15th in the world in positive cases of COVID-19, and the tenth in number of deaths. “It’s not data to make us proud, but we must be aware that it could have been worse,” he said.
The official listed some of the efforts that have been made to contain the pandemic in Mexico, and said, “There is no doubt that we will leave the pandemic with a better health system. We receive, as you know, the government with abandoned or half-built hospitals, and with a deficit of more than 200 thousand medical professionals.”
But, he continued, “in a few months we converted with the support of state governments, the Navy Secretariat and the Ministry of National Defense, about a thousand hospitals to care for patients with COVID-19. 32 thousand 203 beds and 10 thousand 612 with fans were installed. In addition, 47,000 general doctors and specialists, nurses and other health workers were hired.” At no point, he stressed, “have we been saturated with our health system.”
Since week 29, detailed Alcocer, there is a clear decrease in the number of cases active nationally and 20 federal entities already add up to 12 weeks in a row on the de baja, four states remain on a plateau “and in eight peeks out what I call the herald of a possible regrowth.”
As the pandemic continues to progress, he confirmed, the development of a vaccine appears to be the most promising way to restore new normalcy.
“10 days ago we formalized the first contracts for the acquisition of the COVID-19 vaccine. Our goal is to ensure your timely and equitable access. We have decided that the first doses to arrive will go to health workers, along with vulnerable groups.”
At the conclusion of the secretary’s first speech at the arraignment at which Zoé Robledo, director of IMSS, Juan Ferrer, director of Insabi, and Luis Antonio Ramírez Pineda, director of ISSSTE, opposition deputies surrounded the Secretary of Health, while Sweet Maria Sauri Riancho, president of the board of directors of the Chamber of Deputies, asked to respect the healthy distance and the official.
Members of the PAN parliamentary group took advantage of the turn of their legislator, Martha Esther Romo Cuellar, to unfurl blankets with the phrase: “ineptitude also kills”; while placing cardboard boxes with crosses, simulating tombs, and from their curules crosses with the figures of the deceased by covid loomed.
Sauri Rianchi made several calls to respect the civility pact that was signed between the various partisan forces to have a confrontationless appearance, after the undersecretary of health, Hugo López Gatell, and the holder of Cofepris, Alonso Novelo Barraza, were unable to conclude their appearance in the House of Senators, in the face of the appearance of blankets and opposition claims.
Romo Cuellar, with a cross in his hand and a figure 87 thousand, noted that ineptitude also kills. “The approximate 87,000 died by covid are represented, and we say approximately because the figures presented to us are made up and without actual case counting, when it should be our right to decide with information, but how to know if the tests have not been carried out.”

Bad decisions such as minimizing the pandemic and not taking the necessary measures in time have caused pain that was avoidable in many cases.
Ineptitude Also Kills pic.twitter.com/m1Y4P1hMYN
— Sonia Rocha (@SonRocha) October 22, 2020

At the end of her speech, the panista MEP addressed the secretary: “I have a little present for you, Mr. Secretary, on behalf of the Mexicans, I have a little gift for you never to forget, because you will have to be held accountable for the deaths.” And he gave her an urn.
As in other arraignments, opposition lawmakers devoted themselves to disbeliding officials and those of the ruling party, Morena, to defending them. On one side and on the other blankets came out, with phrases such as: “The people of Mexico are with Hugo López Gatell and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador”, by the morenistas, and “parents of children with cancer we are with you. Cancer doesn’t wait, our children deserve to live,” citizen movement.
Make payment for vaccines
Juan Ferrer Aguilar, holder of the Institute of Health for Welfare (INSABI), stated that Mexico will have 51 million 573 thousand 200 doses of covid vaccines, through the Covax mechanism, for which the government already paid a advance of 3 billion pesos.
“On 14 September 2020, the Ministry of Health and insabi concluded an average agreementWhich Insabi supports the Secretariat’s efforts to accede to the COVAX mechanism. The payment of the advance ensures that Mexico has 51 million 573 thousand 200 doses of vaccines from which it is approved by the health regulation against the SarsCoV2 virus. The payment was 3,490 million pesos.”
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