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An outbreak of covid-19, detected in early August at the Montepio do Porto Residence, caused 16 deaths in a universe of 48 infected. Currently, three people remain hospitalized.
The data was confirmed to the JN by the Northern Regional Health Administration (ARS) which, without giving more details about the case, detailed that 29 of those infected are users and 19 professionals.
The outbreak at the Montepio do Porto residence began in August. At that time, in statements to the JN, the address assured that the situation was under control. Keeping secret how many users and employees were infected, the entity assured that it had managed to “isolate the contagion chain” and “maintain a strict and close control with neighbors, teams and families.”
In mid-August, citing ARS do Norte, the Lusa agency reported 46 infected people at home, including 10 hospitalized people. Even so, the health authority made sure that the outbreak was “controlled” and that all users and professionals in the home, out of a total of 225 people, had been evaluated.
Now confirming the death of 16 users, Residências Montepio explained to the JN that “the deceased residents had several comorbidities, namely, cardiovascular diseases, chronic respiratory diseases, diabetes and a high level of dependency.” He added that the fatality rate is 22%, a “percentage considered low, given the average age of the residents,” which is 90 years old.
As for the infected employees, “none have been hospitalized.” Seven are recovered and six have resumed their duties. Ensuring the sending of “periodic and updated information” to the Porto Health Unit and the Clinical Directorate of the Centro Hospitalar do Porto “, the company also emphasized the performance of laboratory tests” with high frequency “to employees,” in the sense of identification of positive cases as soon as possible “.
Located in Cedofeita, in the center of Oporto, the Montepio Residence has a clinical team, made up of doctors and nurses. In statements to JN, the president of the Union of Parishes of the Historic Center of Porto, considered “serious” the lack of transparency in the disclosure of the number of infected and deceased. Ensuring that the Parish Council was not contacted, António Fonseca stressed that the house is located “in a residential area” and that, therefore, the population should have been informed.
“Montepio is a luxury institution, which has all the conditions. It is very expensive. It has human and financial resources. He is in a city, where there is a large population around him and everything that happens there is important. The secret during all this time is only understood with political complicity and with the General Directorate of Health. Every day they talk in homes and there is an institution that, in order not to question its name, questions the community that surrounds it, ”said António Fonseca. .
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