Greater Santo Domingo is in red. The health authorities issued an epidemiological alert due to the increase in positive cases of coronavirus reported in recent weeks, and activities have continued their course with the gradual opening of the economy.
How do people feel about the incidence of cases reported by Public Health?
“People are not afraid, what you have to do is take care of yourself, wear your mask,” said Esther Ramírez, a woman of approximately 60 years, who said she suffers from hypertension.
Esther “throws herself every day” into the street to work selling toys. Your earnings are your help to live. With them he buys his pills, and what he says he cannot stop working despite the fact that Covid cases are increasing.
But not everyone wears their masks in public spaces. Although the epidemiological alert issued by the health authority that even in places like parks and seawalls it is mandatory to wear this garment, some people took advantage of Saturday to breathe fresh air without covering their mouths or noses.
Dominga Ramírez, who was in the Colonial Zone with her family, noticed that some groups were gathering without a mask.
“If the population had been responsible from the beginning, perhaps we would not be in this situation,” said Ramírez as he walked protected with his mask.
The positivity rate has been concentrated in the National District, in Greater Santo Domingo, and now in San Cristóbal, places where, according to the epidemiological alert issued by the Ministry of Public Health, the majority of those infected, unlike in previous months, it is the young population, whom many citizens blame for “walking around without control or with the required care.”
“People are messy. The youth are corrupted, all of them drinking from the same pot and smoking the same hookah ”, were the words of Juan Aristy, a toy salesman who usually walks through the Colonial Zone.
Aristy also explained that he does not plan to be vaccinated yet, he said that he is waiting for the vaccine from the United States, since he understands that the others are not reliable.
Miguel Palmers, who works in the health sector, said that he and his family have already been vaccinated.
He also said that “the population must continue to take care of itself, but life has to continue, I think that with due care we must take the children for a walk, since we have been doing this for almost two years.
In the Dominican Republic more than 3.5 million doses have already been administered, of this amount 2 million 748 thousand 532 people have the first vaccine; and 845,114 have both doses.
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