The General Director of Healthcare of the SMS has chaired the technical meeting on the situation of the Covid in Torre Pacheco, in which the Director-Manager of the Hospital Los Arcos del Mar Menor, the medical and nursing coordinators of the centers of Torre Pacheco, as well as the Mayor and the councilors of Social Services and Mobility with the Local Police Headquarters, in which the severity of the current situation of the pandemic in the municipality has been analyzed.The increases in infections in recent days have been due to contacts in work centers, mainly in the agricultural sector, in addition to family and recreational gatherings in private homes without respecting capacity and distance.
The most vulnerable sectors of the population are also those most affected by the coronavirus, in addition to the younger sectors that are being attacked by the disease with its terrible consequences for life.The measures to be taken involve a greater intensification of controls in the labor and social sphere, although the awareness of the neighbors is the best weapon to fight against the spread of the virus.
Once again, individual and collective responsibility is called upon to avoid taking restrictive measures decreed in other municipalities.The red health level implies limitations in health centers and medical offices, reducing physical presence although no patient will be left without medical assistance.
The City Council reminds all residents that it is up to them and their action that the infection rate may decrease.
Otherwise, the municipality would be forced into restrictions that would cause a crisis with serious consequences for the entire social and economic fabric of Torre Pacheco.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Torre Pacheco