Self -care best to fight virus

While  the country celebrated the announcement of the Feb.8 reopening of restaurants and the regional director of Metropolitan Health, Israel Cedeño, warned on  Wednesday, February 3, that “regardless of whether we make all the rules more flexible,” the only thing that will not change is self-care. “

“We have to guarantee individual biosecurity to guarantee, in turn, collective biosecurity,” said Cedeño, a day after the Ministry of Health (Minsa)  announced the lifting of the gender restriction measure to shop in commercial establishmentsand, the opening of the restaurants and the use of the beaches in the provinces of Panama, Panama Oeste and Herrera

Cedeño’s statements were made during a day of express swabs in the parking lots of the Alejandro De La Guardia polyclinic, in Betania.

During the activity, insured and uninsured people were tested in order to detect asymptomatic people on the street or positive contacts.

In the metropolitan health region, swab centers are maintained in the 19 health centers, in addition, the five polyclinics of the Social Security Fund are working on weekends, through rapid response teams.

The accumulated total cases of coronavirus add up to 322,201, until Tuesday, February 2,  The accumulated number of deaths is 5,339.