Holguín returns to Phase III
- Written by Lourdes Pichs Rodríguez
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Since Tuesday, February 2, Holguín returned to Phase III due to the increase in positives cases to COVID-19, contacts and suspects, which complicate the epidemiological situation in the province, which since January has maintained a sustained number of active cases at the COVID-19, with significant spread of the virus.
The Temporary Working Group of the Cuban government to confront COVID-19 reported the decline in this territory, where one of its municipalities, Moa, is in limited autochthonous transmission, with 73 cases in the last 15 days, for a rate of 99, 3 for every 100,000 inhabitants.
The decision to return to this province, among the most populated in the country, to Phase III is based on the gradual report of patients, which has added 391 cases since the beginning of the year, including 331 autochthonous and 60 imported, of which 20 were detected at the border and 40 in the second PCR performed on the fifth day after entering the country, hence the importance of the traveler complying with the protocol established following his arrival to the country.
On Tuesday Holguín reported 100 active outbreaks, distributed in the 14 municipalities, with the highest incidence in the head city, Moa, Banes, Mayarí and Gibara.
Among the main hygiene and prevention measures to be completed in Phase III are the mandatory use of the nasobuco (face mask), prohibition of the entry of workers with respiratory symptoms to work centers with the guarantee of their immediate remission to health units, disinfection of hands with 0.1 percent sodium hypochlorite or 70 percent hydroalcoholic solution at the entrance of the institution and systematic and mandatory purification of surfaces with 0.5 percent sodium hypochlorite or 70 percent hydroalcoholic solution percent.
It is also mandatory to comply with the foot steps at the entrance of common areas, as well as active surveillance in Primary Health Care aimed at searching for patients with respiratory symptoms, reduction to half of the maximum permissible capacity in elevators, as well as maintaining hygiene wherever a service is provided and to maintain the physical distancing between people.
In the same way, there are very specific labor regulations for the state sector and for self-employment; Internal trade, banking services, Communications, Transportation, Culture, Tourism and Education, among other sectors, whose compliance will help cut the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.