The mayor of San Javier José Miguel Luengo reported today that the incidence of COVID-19 in the municipality of San Javier, according to official data last night, left 10 people hospitalized, 201 with home follow-up for symptoms compatible with the disease and two deaths.
The mayor referred to regional data showing Area VIII of Health, which includes Torre Pacheco, Los Alcázares, San Javier and San Pedro del Pinatar, as one of the areas of the Region with the lowest incidence and containment of infections, "something that we should see as a stimulus to continue at home and isolated."
The Councilor for Health, Isidoro Miñano, spoke in the same terms, who also intervened today in the report that the mayor of the municipality issues live every day on social networks.
"The decrease in infections and hospital admissions is a statistical hope, but we should not relax but continue as before."
Miñano took the opportunity to remember the campaign that the Polytechnic University of Cartagena has undertaken with the City Councils to collect snorkel masks to manufacture respirators, of which 75 have been donated for the moment in San Javier, and encouraged them to continue doing so by calling 661561495 or protection.civil@sanjavier.es
The councilor for Social Rights, Estíbaliz Masegosa intervened today to remind the population that "Social Services continue to offer the same services as up to now, with an average of 60 users served daily by phone (968 19 0782) or email (services .sociales @ sanjavieres) Similarly, the COVI, the Center for Attention to Women Victims of Gender Violence, continues to operate normally, Masegosa said, reporting a total of 60 women seen since the social isolation measures began. COVI continues to answer the phone 968 57 32 71 or email sanjavier@covis.es from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 14:00.
Estíbaliz Masegosa took the opportunity to remember other services that have been launched these days, such as home help, which works together with Civil Protection in two lines, one for people infected or quarantined by Coronavirus, which can be requested by phone 661561455 Aid for the supply of basic necessities, and another for the elderly or those with mobility problems who can contact 968 190 782 from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 14:00 or 661561455 outside these hours.
Masegosa recalled that these days the collaboration with Cáritas San Javier, Santiago de la Ribera, the Niñito Jesús association and the Red Cross has been strengthened to respond to the most vulnerable families and people who can call the telephone number of the Social Services Center 968 190 782.
Along with these services, others work like the one that AFAL has launched in collaboration with the Department of Social Rights, the "Solidarity Call" in order to mitigate the anguish that confinement can produce, calling 968 190 782. In the same sense VOADES has been offered offering 24-hour psychological attention at 968 970273 and 91 0285311. The Albores Murcia Association offers resources for families and minors in crisis due to confinement at 968 909084 and www.alboresdemurcia.es and the ANAR Foundation offers the directed ANAR Chat to the child and youth population at www.anar.org.
The coordinator of the Social Services Center, Alicia Balsalobre intervened to highlight the importance of addressing the vulnerability problem that people with any type of mental disorder represent and recalled the telephone number that the SMS has provided for these cases, 900 102 254. Balsalobre pointed out that in reality "we are all in a vulnerable situation" in the current situation and took the opportunity to claim the visibility of Social Services and a greater use of its services by the population as a whole.
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier