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The president of Lar de Santa Teresa, in Viana do Castelo, said today that a baby with covid-19 was detected in the institution’s nursery, forcing 13 more children and six employees to be “at home.”
In statements, Augusto Parente explained that the institution has a block for the nursery, equipped with four rooms, and that the case now detected involved the closure of a single room, frequented by 14 babies, who are now “at home”, of same way. of six employees who dealt directly with the infected child.
The official said that all employees of the nursery block, about 20 people, will be tested.
Augusto Parente pointed out that “the case of covid-19 was not detected in the institution, because the child stopped attending daycare last Tuesday.”
“Last Wednesday, the parents informed us that the child did not go to the nursery that day because they were going to give him a vaccine, but he did not show up in the following days. On Sunday, around 10 at night, the health delegation informed us that the child had a covid-19 test, which came back positive, having started all the procedures determined by the General Directorate of Health (DGS) ”, said. .
According to Augusto Parente, “parents were warned not to take their children to the nursery, and the five or six employees who cared more directly for the child, from the educator to the assistants.”
The official said that the room, “currently frequented by 14 babies older than one year, has already been disinfected, pending instructions from the DGS for its reopening.”
In addition to a kindergarten and kindergarten, the institution, founded in 1877, has a reception area for girls, a home for the elderly, among other social responses.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 924,968 deaths and more than 29 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,871 people died from 64,596 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.
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