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Approaches to the town of Panicherevo were blocked by the police at 7pm on Tuesday. Photo: Vanyo Stoilov
Five of the 50 PCR tests carried out on Thursday in the quarantined village of Panicherevo in the municipality of Gurkovo are positive for the coronavirus. They are a 9-year-old boy, his parents and two other women from the Roma neighborhood in the village. Therefore, those infected with COVID-19 in the village of Gurkovo are already 13 years old. This was announced today by the director of the Stara Zagora University Hospital, Professor Yovcho Yovchev, which also houses the Virology Laboratory, which processes tests from southeast Bulgaria.
He specified that the age of newly infected infected adults is between 39 and 59 years.
The infected family was taken by ambulance for treatment at the Stara Zagora Hospital Infectious Disease Clinic. They are family members of the village bus driver, whose sample was positive first. The other 2 women remain for home treatment.
Since the quarantine announcement Wednesday until now, RZI experts in Stara Zagora have performed 130 PCR tests on people from Panicherevo, with whom the first 6 infected had contact. Therefore, two Pannicherevo children, a boy and a 14-year-old girl, were found to test positive for coronavirus on Thursday. The boy turned out to be the grandson of Ivan Mikhailov, 58, for whom Panicherevo was quarantined on Wednesday after he escaped from the University Hospital at the infectious clinic in Stara Zagora a day earlier and returned home by taxi. in the village The patient was returned to the clinic with the police and is now feeling well, Professor Yovchev said.
Trials in town continued on Good Friday. “Our laboratory will also be working on Saturday due to Pannicherevo samples,” said Professor Yovcho Yovchev.
After a man and a woman returned from Angia on Thursday morning from England to Pannicherevo, there were no new people coming home from abroad, the village mayor, Atanas Gramatikov, said “24 hours.” However, around 50 gurbetchiki are expected to return on vacation. They must remain under mandatory 14-day quarantine in their homes in the village.
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