translated from Spanish: Carla Vizzotti: “The situation is critical, the most worrying since the pandemic began”

The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, warned that the epidemiological situation over the second wave of coronavirus is “the most worrying” since the pandemic began and requested to “be reviewed every day.” Regardless of w strengthened the health system system and initiated and sustained vaccination, the situation is critical, the most worrying since the pandemic began,” said the civil service with FM Urbana Play.
Vizzotti argued that unlike last year, the epidemiological situation is “totally different”, due to the new variants of the virus, more lethal “but above all because of mobility and the movement of people in a context of high viral transmission”. This Thursday, President Alberto Fernández announced the beginning of strict isolation for nine days, as a measure to reduce contagion in the face of the saturation of the health situation. However, the Minister of Health stated that “the epidemiological situation should be reviewed every day.”

Carla Vizzotti, Minister of Health of the | Photo: NA

“These are intensified and transitional measures to make a significant reduction in circulation,” he explained, noting that the goal of the decision is that in those locations that “are on alarm and the health system is at risk of overflowing, that risk can be minimized, and where the situation is worrying but has not yet reached that place, it does not arrive.” The increase in the number of cases is directly proportional to hospital stays and deaths, although the benefits of the vaccine are already being seen in over 70 years,” he added. Vaccines
Vizzotti reported that they are with the “last steps” for doses of AstraZeneca from the United States and new doses of Sputnik to arrive, and clarified that it remains “in contact and exchange of possibilities” with Pfizer.” In the next two to three weeks we expect to receive a huge number of vaccines,” he said. The situation for the coming weeks
“We have June, July and August with winter which is a time when it favors all the transmission of respiratory viruses,” he argued and stated that the situation in the winter “is going to depend on how the measures will impact,” but it is necessary “for society to be empowered, to understand what the objective is, and to be as many departures as possible.
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