Medical authorities exhort people to observe Covid protocols when out of their homes
Only 100 young adolescents were vaccinated in this past application of the Pfizer vaccine. Photo: Archive.
Héctor Ruiz Mejía – The number of positive cases of Covid-19 in the municipality of Jocotepec has tripled, announced the director of the Rafael Gómez Rodríguez municipal clinic, Dr. Ricardo Alvarado.
According to Ricardo Alvarado, for a little more than two weeks, between four to five of ten patients he sees in a day in his private consultations alone have tested positive for coronavirus.
«In the previous wave, at the most I was giving one or two positive people per day in my office, that number has already tripled alarmingly», the doctor said in an interview for Semanario Laguna.
Dr. Alvarado said that within the coronavirus results there are all variants, which apparently indicates that the Omicron variant, which has raised international alarm, is already in the municipality.
Without having exact data, Dr. Alvarado said that the positivity within the hospital has been correspond to some degree with the results he sees in his office, which he said indicates that he the current situation of contagion in the municipality is «worrisome».
He also reiterated his concern that the increase in infections will come with the January holidays, noting that the United States is currently one of the countries most affected by Covid-19 and during these holidays a large percentage of the ‘Absent Sons’ – Mexicans living abroad – usually come, he said.
He also added that those who have been most affected in this new upturn have been children and all those who have not been vaccinated, «there are people who do not want to vaccinate their children and this is having serious consequences,» he said.
This fact was reflected in this last vaccination days, which began last Wednesday, January 5, and which was aimed at young adolescents between 12 and 14 years of age, of which only one hundred units of the Pfizer vaccine were administered- one of the vaccination days with the lowest participation.
Finally, Dr. Alvarado urged the community of Jocotepec to become aware of the personal responsibility of each resident, even during the patron saint festivities, to maintain the correct sanitary measures.
«At this point it would be worse to cancel everything, since the merchants had already paid and to return all the money would have been chaos», he asserted, but it is necessary to wear a mask at all times, as well as to ask our companions to wear it, he said.
Translated by Maryanne Marble
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