QUINTANA ROO, RED LIGHT IN COVID AGAIN?

Quintana Roo is getting closer to the red color in the epidemiological traffic light, being the only entity that registers uncontrollable growth of cases in the country.

Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, Mexico November 22, 2020 Tourists on the beach. Photo by Claudia Guadarrama From Outside of Paradise series, chapter COVID-19 impact. An ongoing documentary project on economic and social order and its effects on the residents of one of the most visited tourist cities in the world. “Produced with support from the Magnum Foundation.”

“In this electoral process, I call on each and every participant to adhere to the protocols in compliance with the measures that the health authorities have ordered. We are at an orange traffic light and getting closer to red, ”said the governor. However, there is evidence that shows the relaxation that the state government maintained during Easter with bars, discos and squares without any kind of care.

According to what the president said through his social networks, there are already more than 24,000 people diagnosed with covid within Quintana Roo of which almost 21,000 were discharged and approximately 1,000 remain isolated inside their homes and in hospitals. Unfortunately, Quintana Roo can afford to go back to a red light at the traffic light, because with the first confinement that we experienced there was a great economic crisis and if we live a second confinement, many more people will probably go bankrupt because Quintana Roo It is based on tourism, things that will stop reaching the Mexican coasts if we go back at the epidemiological traffic light

The state health secretary reported that 172 new positive cases of Covid-19 were reported this Wednesday. This is one of the highest figures during the pandemic, which is a reflection of the upward trend in infections that the state has been experiencing in recent weeks. This increase cost the recent retreat to the color orange in the epidemiological traffic light of Quintana Roo.

Due to the situation, a call was made to the public not to loosen preventive measures to contain infections, such as the use of face masks, constant hand washing and healthy distance. It should be noted that the vaccination process for all people over 50 years of age is currently continuing, with a total of almost 217,000 people vaccinated throughout the state of Quintana Roo.

So the decision is up to us, we want to return at the traffic light and be locked in again or we can take care of you from now on so as not to have to go back at the traffic light