The decrease in the number of covid-19 infections in Medellin during the last week, going from 1,090 cases on Sunday, January 30, to 413 on Sunday, February 6, is one of the reasons why the authorities in the capital of Antioquia affirm that the new peak has already been surpassed.
This was reiterated by the mayor of Medellín, Daniel Quintero, who assured that said peak had been exceeded two weeks ago.
“Why worry people if there is no need to do so? Medellín prepared to have more than 1,000 Intensive Care beds, we activated 1,069 at the height of the pandemic, but we attended this new peak with about 700 bedsQuintero said.
That is why, for him, the city never really had that 90 percent ICU occupancy, since they had 300 beds available, but they were saved.
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Thanks to vaccination, added the mayor, it is the reason why this peak was overcome faster than previously thought.
In this regard, as of February 6, 89.9 percent of the vaccination plan has been executed in the capital of Antioquia. In the city, 1,931,351 people They already have their complete scheme, according to figures from the Mayor’s Office. As for coronavirus cases, the capital of Antioquia has 2,316 active cases.
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In recent days, the Government of Antioquia reported that the department is going through a plateau with a downward trend in the current peak of covid-19 infections.
The Secretary of Health, Lina Bustamante, expressed that there is an estimate that by February 15 the occupation of the ICU, hospitalization and deaths from covid-19 will already be decreasing.
“In positivity we are already at 19 percent, before we were at 38 percent. In hospitalizations we were at 850 last week and now there are 700. And in ICU patients with covid-19, we went from 287 to 249. It is decreasing,” Bustamante said.
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