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Asturias regains "low" level of risk of infection with Covid virus, but health asks to "continue with caution"

Asturias regains “low” level of risk of infection with Covid virus, but health asks to “continue with caution”

Director General of Public Health in the Emirate, Lydia Clara RodriguezYesterday in Gijón, it was highlighted that Asturias has switched from “medium” to “low” risk in the COVID-19 pandemic, as a result of a decrease in the number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus. “This is good news, but we cannot lower our guard. We must proceed with caution, and we will not modify the measures we have taken,” Dr. Rodriguez said during a visit to the Asturias International Trade Fair (FIDMA). ).

Meanwhile, the Minister of Health said, Pablo Fernandez MunizReferring to boosting investments within the Spanish government’s High-Tech Investment (Inveat) plan: “We have to move with great strides to reach the agreed dates. The entire Inveat plan should be operational by next September. In the year, so during this year, And in upcoming Board agreements, we will continually see bids and approvals for new spending items.”

The emirate receives 12.9 million euros in European funds from the Ministry of Health, and the emirate adds 2.7 million. In total, 15.6 million will allow the purchase of 17 high-tech devices. “The architects are already working on those projects that require some kind of work to install this new device,” the health chief stressed.

The purchase of this equipment is financed by European “Next Generation EU” funds. The Inveat plan seeks to improve the public health system’s hardware to “favor the diagnosis of tumors, neurodegeneration, chronic disease and cardiovascular disease at early stages,” according to the district government.

On the fifth day, the Regional Executive Director approved an item of €1,109,768 for the MRI team of Monte Naranco Hospital (Oviedo) and €829,092 for the Interventional Cardiology team (hemodynamic room) at the University Hospital of Caboines (Gijon).

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Regarding the Sespa preventive program for women in cases of introduction of chemicals, Pablo Fernandez noted: “Fortunately, it was not necessary to activate the protocol in any other case.”

As this newspaper reported yesterday, the emirate enters the second half of August with the lowest rate of infection with the Corona virus since December 2, 2021. The region has returned to the low risk level, after it was at an average level since the end of last June. .

The indicators considered are hospital occupancy indicators, where monitoring is focused on severe cases and on residents aged 60 and over. In this population, the infection rate in the past 14 days in Asturias was 259 cases per 100,000 inhabitants. This rate is lower than the national average, which is at 283 per 100,000. Five autonomous communities score lower figures than the region of Asturias; The remaining eleven, up.

Currently, 138 patients with coronavirus remain on the ward and 8 are in the intensive care units (ICU) in district hospitals. This global figure of 146 is half the number recorded on July 24 and the lowest since June 17.

The death rate from COVID-19 in Asturias has fallen to its lowest level since mid-June. Eight people died from the coronavirus last week. The week before there were twenty. Throughout the epidemic – since March 2020 – the death toll in the region has reached 3,049, according to the standards of the Ministry of Health. The emirate’s government is using other, less restrictive guidelines under which deaths from the coronavirus will increase by nearly a thousand people.

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