With the termination of movement restrictions in the distribution La Piñera, after 49 days of quarantine, the province of Ciego de Ávila takes further steps towards the final control of the rebound of COVID-19, which affects the territory since last August 25.
Julio Gómez Casanova, President of the Municipal Defense Council, expressed through his Facebook profile the recognition of all the inhabitants of the area, for their discipline and contribution and exhorted to maintain the use of the face mask and social distancing as measures to avoid new infections.
Although two transmission events are still open in the main city, the progress towards the eradication of the SARS CoV-2 virus outbreak can be seen in a trend towards a decrease of positive cases and their concentration mainly in the Nueve de Abril area, in the periphery of the city.
There is also a decrease in the number of admissions due to suspicions and in the number of people in isolation centers, although the search for patients who may be asymptomatic has been intensified and conditions have been created to act with greater opportunity in the detection of suspects.
Dr. Osvaldo Ibañez González, provincial director of Health, explained in a special magazine of the Avilanian Television that in 17 of the 19 polyclinics of the province there are specialized consultations for acute respiratory infections and the collection of PCR samples, from where they derive between 65 and 70 daily tests.
Likewise, preventive work is carried out in entities such as the Diary company, where some workers were contacts of a confirmed case.
Agnerys Cruz Rodríguez, municipal director of Health in the provincial capital, explained to digital Invasor that, although there are no positive cases within the Company, it was decided to isolate these contacts and to form a team of 15 people to maintain the vitality of the pasteurization line, and to make possible the continuity of the production of this essential food.
She said that disinfection tasks are carried out, controlled by the sanitary inspection teams, and research of all the people who are still working, while more than 100 workers are controlled in their areas of attention and another 25 are waiting for the result of the PCR-RT.
In view of the impatience of many avilanians to leave behind the phase of limited native transmission, Ibáñez González explained that to achieve it, the province must accumulate seven consecutive days with an incidence rate below 20 per 100 thousand inhabitants, an indicator that can be reached in the next few days.
