Until now they are recommendations and, obviously, if we see in the graphs that there is a decrease in mortality and a decrease in people who get sick, then it is not a decision that only I am going to make, but the Council”. VICENTE JOEL HERNÁNDEZ NAVARRO Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas
Due to the benefits that it brings, the Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas, Vicente Joel Hernández Navarro, positioned himself against lifting the health alert in the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. Covid-19.
The foregoing, following the statements by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in which he reported that specialists from the Ministry of Health (SSA) are analyzing ending the Coronavirus health emergency.
In this regard, the Secretary of Health of Tamaulipas pointed out: “I would like it not, we have a Council and I would like it not, because it also prevents other types of respiratory diseases, especially in winter times.”
He considers that sanitary measures, such as the use of face masks in closed spaces, constant hand washing, respecting a healthy distance between people, and etiquette sneezing, have served to reduce respiratory diseases.
“Until now they are recommendations and, obviously, if we see in the graphs that there is a decrease in lethality and a decrease in people who get sick, then it is not a decision that only I am going to make, but the Council,” he said. the state secretary.
President López Obrador announced that the final decision will be made known whether or not the health alert and the social and economic restriction measures that depend on it are lifted.
However, the statistics of the National Epidemiological Surveillance System establish that the hospitalization and fatality rate of Covid-19 in patients from Tamaulipas has increased in the sixth wave.
The trend of hospitalization and mortality of Covid-19 registered a decrease since the second wave of infections in the winter season of 2020 and 2021, but for the first time in two years it registered a slight increase, going from 4.1% hospitalization to 6%, and a mortality rate of 0.9 % to 1%, according to statistics from the Tamaulipas Health Secretariat itself.
