The latest epidemiological report from the Ministry of Health places the number of asymptomatic positives in Madrid at 78.4%, almost seven points more than the national average (71.2%). Of the 8,342 new cases registered in the last 14 days in the region, only 1,807 have presented symptoms. This data from the new Health report, prepared on the basis of the figures provided by each autonomous community, once again refutes the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, who said last week that "it was not a good indicator »That the number of asymptomatic patients detected in Madrid stood at 15%.

Simón's statements caused a new political storm and fueled tension between the central and regional governments. Thus, the Minister of Health of the Community of Madrid, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, accused Simón of "disloyalty" and of "generating alarm" among Madrid, and transferred his discomfort to the Minister of Health, Salvador Illa, in a telephone call .

According to the Madrid Ministry, if the region really only detected 15% of asymptomatic patients, the situation in hospitals would be very bad, when "at this moment it is under control." Thus, none of the hospitals in the region exceed 30 hospitalized by Covid or the five admitted to the ICU carrying the virus. In the midst of the accusations, the regional government withdrew from its website the weekly epidemiological report that mistakenly placed asymptomatic patients between 7% and 19%.

Yesterday, at his regular press conference to update the pandemic data, the director of the Center for the Coordination of Health Alerts and Emergencies, avoided getting into controversy regarding the data. «The data is there, I am not going to enter into any discussion. Madrid is making a very important effort to increase its diagnostic capabilities, which are already many, "he said.

«I am not going to enter the game of entering the confrontation of numbers. What worries me is that the transmission is controlled, "he stressed, and then added:" If I have to ask for forgiveness, I will ask for forgiveness and if I have to bear the mistakes of others, I will.

255 new cases

Meanwhile, the epidemiological situation in the region is stabilizing. Thus, in the last 24 hours there have been 255 new positives confirmed by PCR, approximately half of those notified last Friday, when there were 512, and one death from coronavirus has been registered, two less than on day 7, according to the Last report of the Ministry of Health.

The number of hospitalized patients as of yesterday is 457, compared to the 331 who were admitted this Friday, while the patients in the ICU are 69, compared to the 51 who were in intensive care on Friday.

To the 255 new infections confirmed in the last 24 hours, we must add 968 cases incorporated after the count of tests carried out in previous days, which brings the accumulated to 86,980 infections since the beginning of the pandemic in the region.

On the other hand, according to what was published yesterday on the contracting portal of the Community of Madrid, the Ministry of Health has awarded an emergency contract to a company of the Quirón group a contract for the "detection of close contacts" of coronavirus, through a team of 22 health workers who will act as trackers (20 nursing assistants and 2 doctors) for three months and for a total amount of 194,223 euros. They will have to carry out at least 190 daily surveys.

"Given the importance of the services to be carried out and because it is an emergency that cannot be postponed, the only company that can start the work immediately is Quirón Prevention, SL, which also has the required facilities and equipment", explains the resolution signed by the general director of Madrid Public Health, Elena Andradas.

Asked about it at a press conference, Simón avoided answering about this award. “Each community has its own mechanism to carry it out [the tracking], I am not interested in whether it is with a private company or a public service, although I personally prefer the public service. Of course, it has to be efficient.

The Madrid Medical Association assured that the contract is "insufficient", while accusing the regional government of "patching" the need to hire trackers who arrive "badly and late." And he recalled that he offered 1,800 health professionals to do the tracking.

The deputy spokesman for the PSOE in the Madrid Assembly, José Cepeda, also criticized the regional government, for spending in "just a week looking for free trackers among university students" to opt, due to their "incompetence", for the "solution of always "for the PP: the" privatization of the service. " CCOO did call it "a shame" that this award was made "at night" and after "the difficulty of filling the positions offered" was announced and it turned to universities and municipalities in search of free volunteers.

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