Epidemiology Director Ronald Skewes said today that certain needs will be taken into account to report a death caused by coronavirus.
“You have to have a positive PCR test, have a positive chest scan, and despite all the epidemiological link that has the same validity as the previous two,” explains the specialist.
In addition, he claimed that it is a procedure that takes several days to ensure that a user dies from the virus, making it difficult to report death figures on a daily basis.
“We’re a few days away from fixing all this when we have a new platform where all this will be reported in real time,” he added.
Meanwhile, Deputy Minister of Health Ivelisse Acosta said press meetings on coronavirus in the country would resume next week.
To have contacts with all communicators, so that there is not so much lack of communication between us that is so important, ” Acosta.
The two representatives filed their statements in an interview on the El Da program.
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