The Ministry of Health celebrated the decrease in dengue cases in the province and assured that the provincial territory began to experience a downward trend with respect to the contagion curve. However, he called on the population not to neglect prevention measures because the epidemic continues.
“The good news is that the curve is going down and that shows the articulated work between the Nation, province and each municipality to be able to mitigate this outbreak, without neglecting prevention”, celebrated the vice minister of the health portfolio, Sebastián Torres.
He specified that in total “There are 17,200 cases throughout the province”but stated that “the curve is on the decline and that is very good news.”
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“This decrease in cases is the result of articulated work between Nation, province and municipality”valued when specifying that in the last hours only 1,500 cases were reported, far from the 6 thousand and up to 8 thousand cases that the province had been registering in terms of dengue infections.
He also said that the 8 deaths in the entire province is a figure that is below the mortality rates of the disease transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.
“We do not have serious hospitalized patients, except for one case that remains with a reserved prognosis. In general, they are cases of outpatient management in cases of febrile symptoms,” said Torres.
Likewise, he anticipated that “the projection is going to be maintained during the coming weeks, but they will always be on the decline. We are going to look at that peak from behind, we must not lower the work of prevention and hygiene “.
