The president of the Association of Mayors of Puerto Rico, graduate Luis Javier Hernández Ortiz, called on the central government to take more severe measures to try to prevent further contagion of Covid-19.
“The reality is that sections of the population have not been following the recommendations, with the results we are seeing today. The numbers have increased dramatically, the variants have made the virus more contagious and deadly,” he assured.
Hernández Ortiz added that hospitals throughout Puerto Rico are filling up and the positivity rate is red in virtually every municipality. “The hardest weeks in the whole pandemic await us. My request to the government to think about saving lives above the economy. We are once again making ourselves available to Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia to sit in table and again make the decisions that are for the benefit of the country “.
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Puerto Rico woke up on Tuesday with seven new deaths from the pandemic, while the number of hospitalizations associated with viruses increased to 406, which translates into 19 more than yesterday, according to data from the Department of Health. The agency also released the number of 714 new confirmed positive cases, 409 probable positive cases and 1,265 suspected positive cases. Against this, the accumulated confirmed cases add up to 103,957, while the probable ones are 12,421 and the suspects 104,819.
The leader of the popular mayors expressed concern about the reported outbreaks, for example, the mayor of Yabucoa, Rafael Surillo, ordered the cancellation of all municipal activities after he confirmed 9 outbreaks of the coronavirus in less than a few weeks. Surillo confirmed that he faces 9 outbreaks. “Last week there were 7 outbreaks in Yabucoa and overnight 2 more outbreaks arose and that worries us a lot,” the city executive told a radio station.
The president’s call for the 41 associate mayors adds to the fact that U.S. health agencies recommended this morning a “pause” in the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine against Covid -19c for the purpose of investigating reports of potentially dangerous blood clots. “Never before had we faced a pandemic of this magnitude and what follows is that, with the knowledge we have, we exercise maximum control,” concluded Hernández Ortiz.