The municipality of Totana returns to Phase 1 of the de-escalation, again, after the significant number of positive cases for coronavirus that have been registered in the last hours and days derived from attending nightlife venues, with a total of 55 infected.This was announced this Thursday by the Health Minister, Manuel Villegas, after the extraordinary meeting of the Post-Covid Monitoring Commission in the Region and the Governing Council, which made a special appeal to the Latin American community based in the Region, which brings together 60 percent of coronavirus infections.In addition, the mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has appeared to account for the situation after being directly informed by the president of the Autonomous Community, Fernando López Miras, although the specific details of the restrictive measures will not be known until they are published in the BORM throughout the day.In this way, the entry and exit of the municipality of Totana will be prohibited, its day centers will be closed and visits to the residences will be restricted, while their health centers will be closed, except for care related to the pandemic.It is planned to sign this afternoon the order by which all these restrictions will be established, which basically have the purpose that citizens do not leave their homes except to make essential arrangements such as shopping or going to work, that meetings are not organized with family and friends and avoid crowds and stays indoors, as it is the main route of spread of the virus.The capacity of the establishments will be restricted to 50 percent (compared to the current 75 percent) and only the terraces of bars and restaurants will be allowed to open, not the interior areas, among other measures.The most important active outbreak in the autonomous community is currently registered in the municipality, with 55 cases, all of them related to a nightlife venue, and it is foreseeable that this number will increase in the coming days because, the councilor explained, some 300 People who passed through the facility have undergone PCR.The main concern now is that part of these people, who do not have symptoms, have been living normal lives in recent days and have infected other residents of the municipality, which is why the aforementioned retreat to phase 1 has been decided.The mayor has described the outbreak in Totana as "chilling data" and a "very worrying" situation, because this number may increase considerably once the results of the tests yesterday and this morning are known.The first mayor has predicted that the hotel establishments will not be closed in their entirety, operating only the activity in those with terraces and prohibiting service in the interior; as well as giving continuity to food delivery services.In addition, he has advocated putting the means so that the impact on SMEs is as little as possible; and has advocated for staying calm, abiding by and obeying the rules.
She also explained that it is a time "for reflection": "if we want to break the virus, we must all do it together and leave ourselves with meaningless political interests," she said.He wanted to appeal to the responsibility of the immigrant and Latino communities, especially young people, because, as he said, "it is not a reason to blame anyone, but we are living through an extraordinary moment and that is more important than anything else.
We must not be intransigent in the face of the rules: we have the right to freedom but also to health.
"The mayor has advocated for maintaining solidarity, fraternity and social responsibility; And it has warned that whoever does not comply with the rules will be sanctioned.
It has also wanted to send a message of support, collaboration and loyalty with the regional government and the single command in this crisis situation; and has reported that the two health centers in Totana are "code red", so they will no longer attend to consultations.Totana was already the only municipality in the Region of Murcia that delayed its passage to phase 2 of the de-escalation due to another outbreak, of much smaller magnitude, generated among farm workers.Apparently, during the month of July the cases have grown exponentially in the autonomous community, with 32 infections in the first week of the month, 62 in the second and 193 in the current week.Contagions can be caused by asymptomatic people and even with a first negative PCR, for which reason he has insisted on the need to keep quarantines correctly, and has made a special appeal to the Latin American community based in the region, since 60 percent of current active cases occur in people from that continent, specifically, 153 of the current 253 infected.In total, since the pandemic began there have been 3,688 people affected in the region and today 16 are hospitalized, 1 in intensive care.
Salud is also monitoring some 4,000 people who have had close contact with these active cases, and has carried out 84,257 PCR tests since March, more than 1,300 just yesterday.
