“For the population, our advice – because we can not come with obligations inside the house – is to celebrate inside the small family, those with whom you stay in the house, avoiding travel or receiving guests or carolers to stay for a quarter of an hour. It is very risky in terms of the spread of coronavirus.
Vaccination will begin, but at this time we must follow all the rules, including during vaccination, until we see an impact.
When grandparents come and stay together for a longer period of time, we eat together – so without a mask and distance – the risk of infection clearly becomes higher. The limitation of trips after 23:00 and the zonal quarantine of the localities have the role of limiting the spread of the virus.
We try to get over the holidays in the safest way possible, so that we don’t have a big wave of infections and deaths again. We may see an increase after the holidays. Even if a large part of the population may listen to our advice, will remain a part that is skeptical, will not listen there, if there is intense contact and all the rules are broken, it is possible to have an increase “, said Arafat.
Asked why the number of daily tests for the new coronavirus has been reduced, the DSU chief said one of the reasons may be the use of rapid tests.
“Probably more and more antigen is being used. There are many who buy them and make them themselves and may not report them. There may be a reason. We have a testing capability that is not fully utilized. On-demand testing has also declined.
The main parameter for us remains the presentation at the emergency rooms, at the Emergency Reception Units, the calls to 112 and the number of patients from ATI. Their decrease is not concomitant with the number of cases. Normally, if we do not have a new wave, the number of patients at ATI should decrease after two weeks “, added Arafat.
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