Mexico City’s health secretary, Oliva López Arellano, said that if people have symptoms of COVID-19, it is not necessary to get tested, but they must assume they have it and isolate themselves.
He pointed out that if they have runny nose, sore throat, headache and severed body, it can be assumed that you have coronavirus, as they are the symptoms that are being linked to the new omicron variant.
He added that it is not necessary to make a line of three or one hour if they are with the symptoms, so it is better to isolate yourself and notify contacts to cut the chain of infections.
“(Ómicron) gives a picture much more similar to a common cold, with symptoms of runny nose, sore throat, headache, there may be a cut body, here the fundamental thing is that the person, if he has symptoms, isolates himself, which is not thinking that he has an ordinary flu, but that he thinks first of all that it can be Covid-19, this cuts the chain of infections.
“With this picture we can be almost sure that we have COVID because the rest of respiratory viruses are not expressing themselves so much in this winter period. If you don’t have to go out and get tested, you can not get tested,” he said.
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However, López Arellano asked the population to be attentive to two symptoms classified as alarm: oxygenation of less than 90% and persistent elevated temperature of 38 or 39 degrees Celsius.
If they show up, he asked to approach a triage module, a respiratory care module, a health center or speak to the Locatel for guidance.
He argued that the omniron variant has displaced delta which was dominant until a few weeks ago; He stressed that it is more transmissible, produces more infections, “but it is a variant that fortunately is not more virulent.”
“Ómicron is a fast contagion, to put it colloquially, like a flare of petate, it starts fast and concludes quickly,” he said at a press conference.
The official said that in the city the number of samples is being expanded in each health center, in shopping centers, in respiratory care modules of the IMSS and that more kiosks will be installed.
In addition, he recalled that the population will continue to be vaccinated with boosters and the laggards.
Read: COVID tests: Modules open in shopping malls and extend hours in health centers in CDMX
In recent days, pharmacies, private clinics, health centers and in family medicine units registered long lines to request COVID-19 tests.
Therefore, the government of Mexico City opened modules in shopping malls and extended hours in health centers.
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