The Minister of Universal Health and Public Health, Ana Barceló, reported on the current situation of the coronavirus in the Valencian Community and announced the measures that are being adopted in the Community to contain the virus.
During his speech, Barceló pointed out that «se van a prorrogar durante 21 días más las medidas de prevención frente al coronavirus adoptadas el pasado mes de agosto para toda la Comunitat Valenciana, unas medidas que fueron consensuadas para toda España en el Consejo Interterritorial del Sistema Nacional de Salud».
This extension begins next Monday and mainly affects different social areas such as nightlife, hospitality, the celebration of different events and the consumption of tobacco in the street.
As Barceló has indicated, «se trata de unas medidas que están mostrando su efectividad en la contención del virus, por lo que es importante que sigamos trabajando en esta línea para evitar contagios y frenar los posibles brotes y controlar la pandemia».
Likewise, the councilor has highlighted the important work that is being carried out in the Valencian Community of early surveillance and active search for cases. In fact, she has pointed out that. «estamos aumentando la capacidad de diagnóstico. Desde el fin del estado de alarma se han realizado 640.000 pruebas diagnósticas, lo que supone un incremento de más del 152%».
In total, 1.057.457 tests have been carried out, of which 92% have been negative and only 8% have been positive. In addition, 40% of the cases detected since the end of May correspond to asymptomatic people.
Coronavirus status
The Ministry of Universal Health and Public Health has registered 707 new coronavirus infections confirmed by PCR test in the Valencian Community since the last update, which places the total number of positives at 37.553 people. On the other hand, 688 patients with coronavirus have been discharged, so the total number of people cured since the start of the pandemic stands at 38.870. In this way, there are currently 6.286 active cases, which represents 13,44% of the total positives.
Valencian hospitals currently have 463 people admitted and 8 deaths from coronavirus have been registered since the last update.
