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The information was provided by the mayor of Vimioso, Jorge Fidalgo, after a working meeting to evaluate the epidemiological situation in that IPSS, promoted jointly by the Public Health Unit (USP) of Bragança and the municipality of Vimioso, where they marked District officials from social security, firefighters and civil protection, local authority, parish council and GNR were present.
“Of the 29 users analyzed, 28 were positive. Of the 16 employees, including a health professional, nine also tested positive for covid-19, ”said the mayor of Trás-os-Montes.
The tests were carried out after, on Friday, an 85-year-old man, a user of that house, died from the infection caused by covid-19.
The user who “tested negative” will be transferred to “his residence” and will be attended by a home support team.
According to Jorge Fidalgo, Lar de Carção users who tested positive will remain in the facilities, where they will be cared for by a permanent team, made up of eight or nine employees who were “residing in the institution, during the quarantine period, to care for the elderly. “.
“There are physical conditions for this action to take place. The evolution of the epidemiological situation and the well-being of users will be constantly evaluated by multidisciplinary teams of Social Security that are on alert ”, said the mayor.
USP de Bragança will maintain contact with the people who tested positive for the subsequent prophylactic isolation.
“The epidemiological situation in Carção’s home and in the community will be evaluated by USP in the coming days,” he said.
The management of the Carção home activated the contingency plan on Friday, after the user’s death.
The data provided by the municipality of Vimioso reveals that there are 54 active cases of covid-19 throughout the municipality.
In Portugal, 1,899 people died from 68,025 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
