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A 27-year-old woman died inside a public service bus while traveling on the Bogotá – Pasto route, this Wednesday morning.
The passengers of the vehicle assigned to the company Magdalena Fleet and one of the young woman’s children gave notice to the driver when they were moving along the La Línea road, between Cajarmarca and Calarcá.
The woman’s body was taken by bus to La Misericordia de Calarcá hospital, where the first inspections began, which determined that she was a carrier of the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
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According to the municipality’s health secretary, Laura Arenas, the woman presented symptoms such as cough and general malaise while waiting for the bus at the Bogotá transport terminal.
” Even the passengers say that they had to help her get on the bus, but then in a traffic jam in La Línea the woman’s symptoms worsen and one of the minors tells the driver that her mother is very ill and they notice that he no longer shows vital signs, ” said the official.
The bus driver decided to take the route to the nearest hospital, in this case La Misericordia in Calarcá. ” The woman is received without vital signs and is taken Covid-19 test to rule out, but two hours later they give us the positive result. And the tests of the 4 children came back negative. ”
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The official noticed that the passenger was traveling with her 4 children between 6 and 11 years old. “The process has already begun with Family Welfare and the Childhood and Adolescence Police for the reestablishment of rights, and the families of the minors who are in Bogotá and Tumaco have already been contacted to receive them.”
The 26 passengers who were mobilized on the bus must remain in preventive isolation in their destination cities, according to the secretaryHealth. ” We have already communicated with the health secretariats of those cities so that they are aware that everyone begins the isolation process, additional data was taken from each one including the driver and his assistant, and the covid test must be taken in the following days, ” Arenas said.
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For his part, the mayor of Calarcá, Luis Alberto Balsero Contreras, asked the transport company to offer the respective explanations of the case, since “biosecurity controls must be intensified at both the land and air terminals and abide by all national provisions in this regard. , so that circumstances as painful and also dangerous as these do not arise again. ”
He added that “inter-municipal transport companies must be more demanding and guarantee the tranquility of both those who make these trips as well as the places where they travel to prevent this pandemic from getting out of hand and we can control it. ”
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