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The record of positives in a single day since the covid pandemic began was reached in Cieza this Wednesday with 61 cases.
The situation, which has also led to an increase in healthcare pressure at the Lorenzo Guirao Hospital with 17 admissions for coronavirus, for now, and the red level in the two health centers in the town, has led the City Council to to adopt, as a matter of urgency, new restrictive measures that involve the cessation of all non-essential municipal activity, which will mean the closure of sports facilities, municipal library, study rooms and museum. The decision of the local government has been announced this Wednesday by the mayor of the city, Pascual Lucas, after meeting with the manager of Health Area IX, Carlos Arenas, responsible for different municipal areas and the police officers.
Local Council and Civil Guard. Lucas has stressed that "we are in a serious situation due to the number of infections that we are suffering in recent days and that have triggered the number of positive cases in the municipality, in the area of health and that the accumulated incidence has increased disproportionately.
In our municipality, we have gone from an accumulated incidence of 71, 5 and 17.1 per 100,000 inhabitants that we had on December 22, to 677.4 and 428 , 7 respectively that we had yesterday, which represents an increase of 900% ". The councilor explained that this means that "our health services are collapsed, that hospital income has increased to fill the covid plant, with the need to refer blind patients to the Los Arcos de San Javier Hospital, where yesterday, unfortunately, A fellow citizen of Cieza died of covid; the non-urgent surgery has to be suspended as a containment measure to be able to care for coronavirus patients and we are in a rather delicate situation.
Our two health centers are They are in the red state, which means that they are practically entirely dedicated to treating covid patients and that the attention is only by telephone.
" "With these data that we offer - the mayor pointed out - it is not necessary to indicate the seriousness of the situation, since Cieza had not had such a high incidence until now and the need to act on the part of all with responsibility and rigor because we are talking about human lives.
"He has announced in a row that" the City Council is going to do everything in its power to try to stop the spread of the virus that we are suffering, but we need the collaboration of all of them to achieve the purpose at hand.This morning we held a meeting of the coordination table against covid, which was attended by the manager of Health Area IX, Carlos Arenas, Police a Local, Civil Guard and those responsible for the different areas of the town hall.All non-affiliated groups and councilors of the Corporation have also been informed by telephone, showing their concern about the situation and joining the requests made since this press conference.
" Lucas has announced that all non-essential municipal activity will be stopped, which will mean the closure of municipal sports facilities, municipal library, study rooms and museum. He has clarified that, nevertheless, the citizen service buildings are going to be kept open with the prior appointment service and further distancing the time margin of attention to the neighbors, in addition to strengthening the assistance to the elderly and those in vulnerable situations. On the other hand, the first mayor has clarified that the parks will remain open, "due to a recommendation that comes to us from the Ministry; but, from seven in the afternoon, it will not be possible to stay in them and both the Local Police and the Civil Guard will carry out control tasks.
"Likewise, Pascual Lucas explained that," at the request of Public Health of the Autonomous Community and given the impossibility that they have to cover the service, the coverage of the Cieza trackers team is going to be expanded, which is carrying out important work in the days since its start-up and which have become an essential and priority service in this circumstance.
to try to stop the expansion.
" Likewise, the Local Police and the Civil Guard are going to intensify the surveillance and control of the entry and exit of the municipality, "but each of us must be our own police.
They transfer us from the health authorities that a large number of Mere contagions occurs in the family and friends, and is what we must avoid at all costs, "Lucas added. Finally, he has appealed to the responsibility of all citizens asking for "responsibility, caution and a lot of discipline.
We must be more rigorous than ever, because the lives of those we love most are at stake.
We must stay at home, go out only for the essentials, not increasing the contact circle beyond the cohabitants and maintaining the recommendations of safety distance, mask, frequent hand washing and ventilation.
We have a challenge as citizens and, if all We do our part, sooner rather than later we will be able to get the incidence to decrease and to recover a little that activity that now has to stop.
Prudence, responsibility and commitment is what I ask and expect from each one of the ciezanos and ciezanas ", it is finished.
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Source: Ayuntamiento de Cieza
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