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The Romariz Social and Parish Center, in Santa Maria da Feira, has 28 children and four employees in quarantine due to the infection of a girl with the new coronavirus, the source of the institution said Thursday.
According to the management of this particular social solidarity institution in the Aveiro district, the diagnosis occurred after the mother of one of the daycare users was diagnosed with covid-19, after which the 4-year-old daughter, she was also confirmed sick. , although “asymptomatic”.
The parish priest José Manuel Andrade, of the direction of the aforementioned social team, said that the case forced to send part of the children who attend the institution to home isolation, “together with the parents”, having fulfilled “all the instructions of the General Directorate of Health [DGS]”.
Four employees were also quarantined.
The social center continues to function
The same social center, however, maintains both the nursery and the kindergarten, as well as the free time occupations, which, in total, means that “about 35 children” continue to be welcomed daily in the institution.
José Manuel Andrade told Lusa that this is because “there are separate circulation circuits” for each valencia, added the technical director of the institution, Filipa Pinto, who was also decisive in the chronological record of contacts between different users.
“It was fortunate, but some children only entered on day 1, when the suspects were already at home, and that left them at risk”He explained.
The same official said that the situation is being seen with “tranquility, because the institution is following all the rules of the DGS, it has always controlled the temperatures at the entrance and also registers diarrhea”, so it “is alert soon.” at the first symptoms. “
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