As anticipated, Baja California returned to the maximum risk under the COVID-19 epidemiological traffic light chart, this after obtaining 32 points in the evaluation of indicators, which is the one that classifies the color in which the state will continue in the coming days (from December 7 to 20).

However, the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, pointed out the possibilities that the entity has to return to orange.

"How deeply in red are we? Many people are going to say we have gone red, but are we going to take a long time to return? That depends one hundred percent on the co-responsibility of the population".

According to Pérez Rico, the region went to red only by one point, since to be in orange traffic light you must have between 16 and 31 points, a score in which even at some point the state came to add up to 14, said the Secretary. "For all those who did not believe, for all those who did not take care of themselves, for all those who went to crowded places without a mask, thank you very much, because of that we are now in red," he said.

In view of this, the head of the Ministry of Health, said: "We are at a point of being in orange, we can do it. Three weeks of taking care of ourselves, three weeks of face masks, three weeks of social distancing, three weeks of really wanting to do it and we will close this year in orange".

To date, Baja California has 949 active cases, 26 thousand 814 accumulated positive cases, and 4 thousand 367 deaths. In addition to reporting a 66% hospital occupation at the state level, and 181 intubated patients.

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