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The head of the Expert Committee of the Ministry of Health, Professor of Infectious Diseases, was found in Laconia Sotiris Tsiodras, after the detection of an outbreak of cases in foreign workers in the area.
The president of the Committee of Experts of the Ministry of Health, Sotiris Tsiodras, spoke about the coronavirus epidemic in the Evrotas area, Laconia, which affects a vulnerable population of immigrants, during his visit to Laconia, together with the Secretary General of Civil Protection , Vassilis Papageos. the Secretary General of Public Health, Panagiotis Prezerakos and the Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Thessaly, Christos Hadjichristodoulou.
According to Mr. Tsiodras, the cases were detected by an action plan already existing in the area, coordinated by Professor Hadjichristodoulou and EODY and refers to the malaria detection, which is carried out by investigating fevers so as not to miss malaria cases. “It is fortunate that the virus has been found, hopefully very soon, and appropriate measures will be taken to reduce the spread in the area.” he said, while completing that All the actions are carried out for the diagnosis, subsequent detection of cases, isolation of the positives and quarantine of their contacts ”.
Positive cases of coronavirus will be isolated in a specific area, as indicated by the Secretary General of Civil Protection, Vassilis Papageorgiou, during his visit to Laconia, while at the same time continuing the control of all immigrants and the entire community .
“We will have some actions on this in what we find and continue with close contacts. All the action will move there so that we can control movements from village to village. We will give some instructions to avoid a few days to go to work. We move on these. axes. We will be ready. Here, Mr. Hadjichristodoulou’s team will be in the area, all the KOMY from the Ministry of Health will be here, they will test the people. “, reported characteristics.
When asked if a local closure was being considered, he replied that “It is being considered, but at the moment we are not doing it.”
Asked if the tests would be carried out on the residents, he said that “once all the tests in the immigrant community are completed, we will continue with those that have been detected as close contacts, or various other transactions.”
“We test and all immigrants are registered, so we also have the houses, we know who lives in each house”, Professor Christos Hadjichristodoulou pointed out, while expressing the belief that due to the good cooperation with the immigrant population, the program for the control of Covid-19 will be successful.
“I believe that with the help of the local authorities, the mayor, the region, EODY, which has brought several COMES and various forces, we will be able to control it.” reported.
“For three days we have been telling all the agricultural workers in the area that they don’t go to work, they stay at home to verify and depending on the cases they find, the competent bodies will take the necessary measures for the area, so that the virus does not spread ”., stressed the mayor of Evrota, Municipality of Verdos, while adding that there are currently around 1,500 people (land workers) throughout the Municipality of Evrota, while in the Glykovrisi area of Agios Ioannis, where the positive cases, there are about 300-350. As you said, today the tracking of all land workers in the Glykovrisi area of Agios Ioannis ends.
As for whether the case was found by the program supported by the region and the municipality for malaria, he said that this is positive, since in collaboration with Professor Hadjichristodoulou, who knows the malaria area, it is the ladder from the June 1 there. «They have registered all the farmers, they know where they live and that helped them to find out with the test they did for malaria, two people with symptoms, one with a fever and the other with a headache. So, they took them to the hospital, they did the test, they tested positive for the coronavirus “, make a note of.
Regarding how to avoid transmission superpowers, the mayor of Laconia said that they are examining it with all the competent bodies and together with the general secretary of Civil Protection, to see where they will be transferred.
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