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| He advocates not starting the 2020/21 school year next Monday in this municipality | The mayor, Juan José Cánovas, has described the epidemiological evolution of the pandemic in Totana in recent weeks as “very worrying”, which has put the municipality back in the top positions for COVID-19 infections after the last confinement that occurred between late July and mid-August.The first mayor has reported on the main issues that the Local COVID-19 Monitoring Board addressed yesterday, which brought together the managers of the Murcian Health Service and Health Area III, Asensio López and Enrique Casado, respectively.In addition, representatives of all political groups, Security Forces and Corps, Civil Protection, Social Services and Civil Protection technicians and medical and nursing managers from the two health centers in Totana, both in code red since last, met.
week.Juan José Cánovas recognizes that the situation in Totana is going to worsen with very worrying numbers of infections since the phase change on August 13 that is causing "a collapse" in the two health centers, and that barely allows monitoring and tracking health care for patients with COVID-19 and forces them to make a "superhuman effort" on other pathologies.The councilor regrets that the advanced path has been retraced after the return to phase 1 due to an erroneous interpretation of false normality; and announces that the Murcian Health Service will look for formulas starting next week to make compatible and differentiate, as far as possible, primary care and that of patients with COVID-19 in both health centers.Cánovas advocates not officially starting the 2020/21 school year from next Monday, September 14 in this municipality, thus reiterating the thought of the majority of the educational community and groups of mothers and fathers of Totana in the face of the disturbing situation that the pandemic today.The mayor recalls that the City Council has made an "important effort" throughout the summer to prepare security measures in educational centers to face the new context; but he understands that the advisable thing, at this moment, is to postpone or stagger the incorporation of schoolchildren to prevent contagion from worsening with the opening of schools and institutes.In addition, it reports that in the municipality of Totana there may be about 800 people who require daily health monitoring as a result of the epidemic, of which almost 300 are active cases and 500 are under observation due to suspicion of direct contact with positives; which represents a higher evolution than during the largest peak of the first wave of the pandemic.It also announces that the Totana City Council has already offered the Murcian Health Service two spaces enabled for the confinement and more exhaustive social control of families or neighbors in quarantine -one of them a hotel-, as well as the initiative to promote a team of scouts volunteers to delimit the sources of contagion.In this regard, the Totanero Consistory has made municipal staff available to the health authorities and will promote the search for volunteers and students from the social health field who work with the NGOs of Totana to carry out these tracking works, after training and oriented by professionals in health centers.The mayor reiterates that the situation of the health centers of Totana is "overwhelmed" and there is no possibility, in addition, to expand the workforce of health professionals; and appeals to social mobility and individual responsibility to curb this epidemiological situation, insisting on the need to become aware of the situation and comply with the recommendations for prevention and social and health self-protection.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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