The President of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, has announced that this next week the Department of Universal Health and Public Health will present the documentation to request that the whole of the Valencian Community go to phase 2 from June 1.
This has been advanced during his appearance before the media after the eleventh meeting held with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and with the rest of the presidents and presidents of the autonomous communities to address the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The president stressed that the health data and the recommendations of experts this week advised to consolidate the situation and not ask for the progression to phase 2 from May 25. It was decided "for prudence, for responsibility and for not going backwards in this de-escalation".
However, now, after the good health evolution observed this week, starting this Monday the documentation will be presented to request that the entire Community can enter phase 2 from June 1.
"This way we will have the necessary guarantee for a more robust, more vigorous reactivation, because there is much at stake". So he added "Let's go step by step" Y "with prudence, with confidence, with responsibility ", since the Generalitat "will never be reckless" with the health of citizens.
The president explained that the evolution of the pandemic is clearly positive in the Valencian Community, as shown by the fact that, in the last 15 days, discharges have increased by 23%, hospitalized people have been reduced to less than half and In addition, the number of people admitted to the ICUs is 32, a third of those there were two weeks ago.
Regarding the incidence in the last 14 days, he stressed that the average number of cases is still 2,5 times lower than the state average. "We are the second community that has increased the number of PCRs the most: 20% more in the past week. And we have discovered an interesting fact: of the 5.300 tests carried out between Thursday and Friday, only 7% of cases were positive This indicates that the transmission is low and that we are able to detect it daily ", has defended.
"Although a rebound in the virus reproduction index has been detected, which requires us to be cautious" the situation "It is more favorable than two weeks ago and last week", has added.
