The designated Secretary of Health, mentioned that it will be on Friday that the Department of Health will reveal the guidelines for the opening of schools, which should begin on March 1 at the insistence of Governor Pedro Pierluisi Urrutia.
“The CDC as a federal agency recommends guidelines. We have these guidelines and it’s in the public domain. These guidelines need to be tempered into a protocol. We have that protocol. Certainly, if you look at it, as early as last week the CDC went change your guide because it is a dynamic thing, so it is up to each state and territory to implement the public policy of how it will be.And I want to decide to have this guide that would be quite smart to follow this guide, or if I want to establish another, “Mellado Lopez told a news conference.
“As a public policy, the government of Puerto Rico has prioritized face-to-face education. He said we want to have face-to-face alternative. And this is based on a request from private sectors and public schools. In this regard, the Department of Health s “Join, carry the CDC guide, which was updated last week and create a protocol. We already have that protocol,” he added.
Mellado López argued that this Friday will reveal the content of these protocols.
On the other hand, the head of Health spoke about the delay in the vaccine outbreak that Puerto Rico has experienced as a result of the winter storm that has hit the United States.
“Right now, this week we haven’t received vaccines because of the bad weather situation in the United States,” Mellado Lopez said.
“We always received vaccines on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. These vaccines are always kept frozen frozen because if there is no activity this weekend because you can’t transport this vaccine if you don’t use it. Vaccine that arrives in Puerto Rico, vaccine that we we inoculate, “he added.
He exposed that patients who have appointments, “we are communicating with patients to notify them that appointments are not going.” He mentioned that the only ones maintaining the vaccination process is the National Guard for the second dose of first responders.
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