When asked about the effect of California on the increase in cases of COVID-19 registered in Baja California, the Secretary of Health, Alonso Pérez Rico, commented that "in its entirety" this is due to the proximity of this entity to the United States.
"The state of California has a large population, it is very active, it has several international airports, and in this sense we know that their incidence in their community infections were the ones that injected COVID-19 into our communities and every time they start to have outbreaks we just follow them. Why, because both the tourism that comes here and the community itself that lives here, works there and interacts in this way that has become normal".
In view of this, he assured that the measures that have been implemented to control this situation are the installation of sanitary filters in the checkpoints between these two binational states. Mainly in the pedestrian, and not in the vehicles.
"When you cross yon vehicle it is as if you were working in Tijuana. You go from your home to your work in your car, go back home, period. You do your essential activity, you don't expose yourself, you don't go out for anything else. But if you go by foot, you use the public transportation that Baja Californians use, that's precisely the logic of doing the filters in the crosswalks, to verify that all the people who are using our public transportation that have symptoms of COVID, notify them and/or return them to be treated in the United States, or that they take care of themselves and are not spreading the virus".
So far, California has registered one million 450 thousand 235 cases of COVID-19, 19 thousand 677 registered as new recently, as well as a total of 20 thousand 463 deaths, of which 220 were reported in the last 24 hours.
For its part, Baja California has 28 thousand 161 confirmed cases and 4 thousand 561 deaths due to the current coronavirus. This is why Baja Californians are urged not to lower their guard, to be co-responsible and to implement prevention measures, since the closing of a border is not the responsibility of a state but of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he reaffirmed.
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