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The number of infected in the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Mação increased today from 85 to 93, among users and employees, a situation that spread in the last hours to the other house of the institution, said the mayor. Vasco Estrela also reported on another situation in the Aboboreira day center, where three employees were positive about the new coronavirus.
“What we feared happened to eight more infected people in the other house in Santa Casa, six users and two employees, and today we have a total of 93 positive people directly linked to the institution, and this outbreak surely affects more than a hundred of people, with ramifications for the relatives of the home professionals, ”said Vasco Estrela.
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The mayor said that another situation in Mação is now “worrying”, having detected three positive employees in a day center in the town of Aboboreira, and today 48 tests are being carried out to screen for the new coronavirus for employees and users.
On the other hand, the mayor confirmed the arrival of a Social Security brigade with six elements that “has been providing support since this morning” to the building of the headquarters of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Mação, and that attends the needs of an institution . that registers a “very significant reduction of employees to provide service to users”.
At this time, this outbreak that affects the two houses of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Mação has 93 infected people (32 workers and 61 users), of which one user has died and two are hospitalized.
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Mação has a total of around 160 users and 110 employees spread over various areas, such as the Residential Structure for the Elderly (ERPI) and the social responses of daycare, daycare, home support and time activities. free.
The outbreak, which began to affect the Santa Casa headquarters building, where one of the institution’s two buildings is located and where a Residential Structure for the Elderly (ERPI) and attached houses, along with the administrative part, operates, kitchen, day center and equipment. several, expanded to a second building, which also functions as a residence for the elderly.
The first positive cases were detected in 14 home employees on December 22 and, with the subsequent tests of all users and employees of Santa Casa da Misericórdia, the known results on the night of December 24 revealed a total of 60 infected people with the new coronavirus, to which another patient joined on December 28.
On December 30, the number of infected in a home in the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Mação went from 65 to 85, among users and employees, a situation that Mayor Vasco Estrela considered “critical” and that today has evolved to a total of 93 sick.
The municipality of Mação, with a total of 161 cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic, resulting in five deaths and 104 people recovered, presented this Wednesday, according to the bulletin of the Association of Health Centers (ACES) do Médio Yew, 105 people under active surveillance, one of which is part of the national list of municipalities of ‘moderate risk’, in force until January 7.
Portugal now accounts for 76 more deaths related to covid-19 and 7,627 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 6,906 deaths and 413,678 cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of which 72,496 are active today, 4,291 more than on Wednesday.
c / LUSA
