SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 7. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Health of the Government of the Canary Islands, Blas Trujillo, has launched this Tuesday a message of “tranquility” in Parliament in the face of the increase in monkeypox infections because, unlike Covid-19, it is not transmitted by aerosols but by contacts. narrower and more fluid, which makes it “more difficult”.
In response to a question from ASG, he has endorsed this position in that there have been no second-generation infections or hospital admissions, the central government has agreed to the centralized purchase of vaccines and the virus can now be sequenced on the islands through the hospitals of La Candelaria (Tenerife) and Doctor Negrín (Gran Canaria).
Trujillo has detailed that the Canary Islands, since May 19, has accumulated a total of 17 infections, all “mild”, of which 12 are in Gran Canaria and 5 in Tenerife, plus one possible in Gran Canaria and four suspects, two in Gran Canaria, one in Tenerife and another in Lanzarote — fourteen cases have been ruled out –.
Casimiro Curbelo, spokesman for ASG, has admitted that monkeypox “concerns” society about whether there is “pandemic potential” given that the outbreak “has not disappeared”, with more than 225 cases in the United Kingdom alone.
Along these lines, he has asked the countries to “reflect” on the fact that if smallpox originates in Africa, it seems that it does not concern them, but in a “globalized” world, what happens in one part of the world affects the other. .
