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A 90-year-old man who was on hemodialysis and died last week was responsible for the covid-19 outbreak in an illegal home in Gondomar, Mayor Marco Martins told Lusa.
Twenty-one users and eight employees of the Paródias e Ternuras house in Gondomar tested positive for covid-19 after the outbreak was detected Friday night, and nine more users tested negative, the mayor said.
“The origin was an elderly man at home who was on hemodialysis and passed away last weekMarco Martins said, realizing that the municipality was “informed this morning of the outbreak and of the results of the tests to which everyone was subjected on Monday.”
Marco Martins reported having met during the afternoon with “the Municipal Civil Protection Service, the household management, Social Security and the Gondomar health delegation to define strategies and procedures.”
“The management of the home made us notice that the positive from the negative had already been physically separated, and the camera streamlined the contacts between the Employment Center and the home to try to replace the infected employees as soon as possible.“he reported.
And he continued: “the address of the home indicated that we already have two people ready to go to work and that they have gone, however, to do the covid-19 test”, so the next few hours and Wednesday morning, in as for caregivers, they are insured. “
The Gondomar health delegation, said the mayor, “It has already begun to contact the people with whom the elderly who tested positive were in contact, and who will reside, at least the majority, in Valbom, to put them in isolation, preventing the spread of contagion.“.
Marco Martins said that he had not received an indication of the address of the house of “overcrowding”, but the guarantee “that he separated the positive from the negative”.
“The house has told us that its licensing process is underway“he added.
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