The conference will be held from Monday 23 to Friday 27 August, it seeks to timely detect people positive for the virus, care for them, and isolate them, which allows to cut the chain of COVID-19 transmission, with the Radar Jalisco strategy, up to 8 thousand tests have been carried out in a single day.
The Jalisco Health Secretariat (JHS) will launch the Strategy of Itinerant Modules to carry out antigen tests, which will allow finding suspected cases of SARS-CoV-2, in order to isolate them, give them care, and cut the chain of contagions of the new coronavirus.
From Monday, August 23 to Friday, August 27, the itinerant modules will visit 21 municipalities in various regions of Jalisco.
Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jalisco has been a national benchmark for implementing various strategies that today confirm that we are on the right path. Performing a large number of tests to detect the new coronavirus has allowed identifying affected people in a timely manner and cutting the chain of transmission.
The tests that will be applied in the 21 municipalities have been validated both by the Federation, the JHS, and by the University Center of Health Sciences (UCHS) of the University of Guadalajara (UdeG), demonstrating a specificity of 99.4% and sensitivity of the 93.3%.
The taking of the tests is aimed at people with respiratory symptoms, such as fever, headache, malaise, cough, chest pain, sore throat and/or runny nose. They will begin to be applied, starting at 8:00 am with the support of the municipal governments involved, which will disseminate them in their territories.
The antigen test allows the identification of a protein known as "S" or spike of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the results are obtained in 15 to 30 minutes.
The itinerant modules will visit municipalities in the following regions: Southern Region, municipalities of Gómez Farías, Sayula, Tonila and Ciudad Guzmán. Ciénega Region municipalities of La Barca, Jocotepec, Chapala, Ocotlán and Atotonilco El Alto. Region High municipalities of Mexticacán, San Ignacio Cerro Gordo, Arandas and Tepatitlán. Valleys Region municipalities of Tala, Ameca, El Arenal, Ahualulco del Mercado and Tequila. Southeast Region municipalities of Concepción de Buenos Aires, Tamazula and Jilotlán de los Dolores.
ACTIVE SEARCH
The Radar Jalisco strategy has made it possible to identify people who have COVID-19 to treat them with opportunity and to recover their health, in addition to avoiding infections.
At the cutoff of Friday, August 20, an accumulated 1 million 276 thousand 336 tests have been carried out.
In the state, up to 8 thousand tests have been carried out in a single day through the Jalisco Radar System (JRS), private laboratories, UdeG, serologies and antigens)
DO NOT LOWER YOUR GUARD
The fight against COVID-19 is not over, the population is reiterated to apply sanitary measures to reduce the risk of contagion such as: correct use of face masks, frequently wash hands with soap and water or use alcohol gel, avoid crowds, especially in closed spaces, and keep a distance of 1.5 meters between people.
Be alert to any symptoms or suspicions of COVID-19 such as fever, cough, headache, chest, throat and/or runny nose, constant vomiting or diarrhea, loss of smell and/or taste, difficulty breathing. Go immediately to a medical unit without waiting for the result of a laboratory test for SARS-CoV-2.
For more information, go to the coronavirus.jalisco.gob.mx site or call the Call Center 33-38-23-32-20, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.