San Salvador.
The President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, warned this Sunday that the health system of the Central American country is headed to “collapse”, after 42 new cases of COVID-19 and they will add 490.
“We are in the stage of maximum community contagion and on the way to the collapse of our healthcare system“The president said from his Twitter account.
Bukele shared a video, in which they are observed bodies of alleged victims of the COVID-19, and noted that “this is Mexico, a country with much more resources than U.S“and” is a matter of a couple of weeks so we can see this here, if we don’t do something already. “
The health authorities they made the Saturday 1,635 tests and detected 44 new infections of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which represents an increase of 9.86%.
This number of cases is the highest since detected the first contagion last March 18.
The deceased remain in 11, the “active” cases number 325, of which 253 patients have no symptoms, 56 are stable, 4 have a “moderate” prognosis and 9 “severe”. In state “critical” there are 3 people.
The Department of San Salvador It is the epicenter of new coronavirus infections with 188 cases, 38.3%, followed by La Libertad (center) and Santa Ana (northwest) with 31 and 30, respectively.
People in the “containment centers” total 3,921 and a total of 5,708 came out of quarantine.
See: The keys to Costa Rica’s success in its fight against the coronavirus
The Executive of Bukele 2,394 people have been arrested for allegedly skipping quarantine and despite the fact that the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court it has prohibited such practice.
The mandatory household quarantine and the state of emergency national will conclude next May 16, without the Salvadoran authorities ruling out a new expansion.
The president sent to Congress “a series of sanitary and economic measures, so that we can better safeguard the health and economy of Salvadorans, “without detailing the points of the initiative. EFE
– .
