The designated secretary of the Department of Health (DS), Carlos Mellado López, assured this morning, Monday, that people in Puerto Rico and tourists “are in the barley.”
“There are a lot of places and I made you pretty honest … people are in the orchards. People are in Puerto Rico in the orchards and obviously one can’t be in two places at once,” the doctor said in an interview with WKAQ 580am.
He added: “On La Placeta (in Santurce) on Friday it was disastrous and we didn’t have a chance to be there because we were in Naguabo. This is an individual thing and right now like I said, we want to open the schools, there are many municipalities that are in the red, certainly if we continue with this pattern of behavior because of course there were contagions in this municipality. We must think and be aware of this. this is not over. “
In addition, the secretary launched it against people visiting the island in the midst of the pandemic.
“Tourists are forgetting … in a place where there is no COVID and it’s bad. In Puerto Rico we are trying to end the pandemic, we see how every day hospitalizations go down … but we also see that in the nights they party, people without masks, tourists who come here without masks … “, he indicated.
On the other hand, the appointed secretary confirmed that in Puerto Rico there are more than 450 thousand people vaccinated against coronavirus.
“This weekend was a brutal vaccination. We had 15 simultaneous centers. Since Wednesday we started vaccinating. We went to a lot of fields, including Orocovis, Barranquitas and here we go through a lot of different villages.” .