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The Middle Tejo has this Tuesday a case of a person infected with SARS-COV-2. This is a student from a high school in Abrantes who took the test and found it positive.
As far as Antena Livre knows, the entire class has already been contacted by the school and public health, all being in mandatory confinement, at least until Friday, when the results of the tests to be carried out on Thursday will be known.
Jorge Costa, director of the Solano de Abreu High School, confirmed to Antena Livre that he has a student who tested positive for SARS-COV-2 and who activated all the mechanisms provided for in the contingency plan.
The school spoke with the parents / guardians of all students in this student’s class who tested positive and other direct student contacts. These students will remain in teaching outside the classroom, that is, at home until all have been evaluated, which will happen next Thursday.
Jorge Costa says that the school has its plan activated and that he anticipated these situations, so he advised the entire school community to remain calm.
Jorge Costa, director of the Solano de Abreu School
Maria dos Anjos Esperança, coordinator of the Middle Tagus Public Health Unit, says that the situation is, at this moment, totally under control, since the plans of the Abrantes school and the public health authorities have been put in place.
The doctor asks that there be no hysteria around this case because after detecting the case of the student who tested positive, the school spoke with the students in the class and their tutors, putting the young people under active surveillance. “They cannot leave the house. They can only leave on Thursday when they go to do the test and then they will have to wait for the results to be communicated to them ”, explained Maria dos Anjos Esperança.
He also explained that in these cases, teachers will also be tested, but will continue to teach, in accordance with the regulations of the Directorate General of Health. “Only teachers who may be in risk groups should stay home.” said the doctor, who said that no disinfection work was necessary in the building, because the school itself activated this mechanism, provided for in the contingency plan.
Maria dos Anjos Esperança hopes that the parents of the students, in general, will have the necessary calm, since she stressed that the students who are the closest contacts in this positive case are all contacted by the school and public health.
The health delegate also said that in these cases, as in other similar cases, the extracurricular activities that young people have are taken into account. [ou idosos] they may have outside of school, in order to assess the degrees of risk.
At this point the doctor says that it does not matter where the contagion comes from, because the transmission is community-based. The important thing is to know the behaviors of those infected to stop possible chains of transmission.
As for the data from Medio Tejo, things have calmed down in contrast to the figures for the country that continues to exceed a thousand cases a day. Even so, we must not lower our arms and continue to trace the paths of what has been the general council of public health authorities.
Maria dos Anjos Esperança, Public Health of the Middle Tagus
There are three more people cured of COVID-19, all in the municipality of Entroncamento. The number of patients who recovered from the infection has now risen to 490.
As for active surveillance in the Tejo Medio, according to the Public Health unit of the Association of Health Centers, there are 206 detainees. The surveillance resulting from the case registered today in Abrantes are not yet included in this report.
These 206 people must be confined to their homes in Abrantes (15), Alcanena (24), Constância (8), Entroncamento (38), Ferreira do Zêzere (1), Mação (1), Ourém (34), Sardoal. (2), Tomar (36), Torres Novas (42) and Vila Nova da Barquinha (5).
ACES Médio Tejo covers the territorial area of 11 municipalities with approximately 235 thousand users. It covers the health units of Abrantes, Alcanena, Constância, Entroncamento, Ferreira do Zêzere, Mação, Ourém, Sardoal, Tomar, Torres Novas and Vila nova da Barquinha, in a territorial area of 2,706.10 square kilometers.
The municipalities of Sertã and Vila de Rei, which are part of the Middle Tagus in the political-administrative division in terms of health, belong to ACES do Pinhal Interior Sul, which also covers the municipalities of Proença-A-Nova, Oleiros and near 30 thousand users. .
2020-10-13
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