Municipal sources of the Cieza City Council indicate that the city is being affected by an outbreak of coronavirus, being at the moment difficult to determine the number of affected, being able to only attend to the official figures of the Ministry of Health; The dance of results in the PCR tests make it difficult to establish the number of those affected, although it is not ruled out that a focus had its origin in the Hospital de la Vega Lorenzo Guirao.This Tuesday, the regional government has prohibited, following the recommendations of the Covid-19 Monitoring Committee, night entertainment inside the premises and has also established the limitation of the number of people in meetings of all kinds to 15.In a press release, it is reported that the municipal government, meeting in its entirety yesterday afternoon, has asked for respect and compliance with the rules agreed by the regional government before the outbreaks of covid-19.
The City Council is prepared to comply with the provisions of the Ministry of Health, the only body with the capacity to establish decrees and orders in relation to the pandemic.From the municipal government they are concerned, since, in recent days, a significant outbreak of those infected by Covid-19 has been detected in the Region, which currently reaches more than one hundred and a half cases and which affects also to Cieza, especially when the data in relation to our municipality have been changing during the course of PCR tests.The Health Minister Manuel Villegas has stated that the epidemiological situation today "is worrisome because of the start of community transmission among a sector of the population that is already affecting other sectors."As for the situation in Cieza, the most worrying thing is that the Epidemiology Service has reported an "outbreak originated after detecting a positive in a patient at the Lorenzo Guirao de Cieza hospital, which has five positives (in addition to the patient and four hospital workers) ".As for the measures agreed by the regional government, the local Executive will strengthen the means of control to comply with the "prohibition of nightlife inside the premises", "the mandatory use of masks and" control of meetings where the 15 people cannot be exceeded.
"The municipal government will support the measures established by the regional and state health authorities, so that the local police and municipal resources will be to watch over and comply with the regulations issued to the respect.Finally, from the government team, after warning that events and news are changing and fast, calls for "responsibility, not to be alarmed, but to comply with the recommendations of health officials, because we must be clear that We can only overcome this pandemic together and with prudence and discipline.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza / Foto: archivo