Sucre stressed that people are getting vaccinated and when they get infected they do not get complicated, so he considers that this is the maximum tool to be able to win the battle against Covid-19 and for the country to continue advancing.
In recent days, the number of positive COVID-19 cases has increased, only yesterday, Wednesday, April 27, 845 new cases were reported, for which the Minister of Health Luis Francisco Sucre assured that this is due to the activities of Holy Week and relaxation of the measures of use of the mask.
“What we are seeing is the result of some actions that we have taken, in fact the elimination of massacres in open places I feel that it was distorted a bit, we knew that this was going to have a small rebound and we are not so concerned as long as we continue taking care of us,” he said.
Sucre stressed that people are getting vaccinated and when they get infected they do not get complicated, so he considers that this is the maximum tool to be able to win the battle against Covid-19 and for the country to continue advancing.
“The results have been as expected and there should be no concern; since hospital capacity is fine, there has been no increase in patients in the COVID-19 ward and we do not have an increase in patients in ICU rooms, ”he stressed.
He specified that Panama is one of the countries that has shown better management of the pandemic, since there are countries that have reached a seventh wave and Panama has barely reached the fourth. The results of the chaos increases have not led the country to complicate either the economy or the stability of the country. “We’re doing it right, one step at a time,” he said.