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“At this moment, there are six infected health professionals in the Regional Health Service, two nurses and an operative assistant in the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, Ponta Delgada, a doctor and a nurse in the Hospital de Santo Espírito da Ilha Terceira and a doctor from the São Miguel Island Health Unit. It is important to mention that the infection did not occur in the workplace in any of these cases, ”said a guardian source, in a written response to Lusa.
According to the regional health secretariat, “in the case of the Hospital do Divino Espírito Santo, in Ponta Delgada, no service was set up.”
On the same island, the Lagoa health unit was closed on November 10 and is not expected to reopen until the 20th.
At the Ilha da Terceira Hospital, a nurse was “isolated” and “operating room activity was conditioned, with the suspension of the scheduled activity and the additional surgical program”, but “three rooms were kept open, for urgent surgery and deliveries”.
The guardianship stressed, however, that the operating room “must resume its normal activity next week.”
“Occupational health has accompanied these situations, in conjunction with the municipal health delegation,” underlined a source from the secretariat.
The Azores currently have 173 active positive cases of infection by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes covid-19, of which 140 on the island of São Miguel, 19 on the island of Terceira, eight on the island of São Jorge , three on the island of Pico, two on the island of Faial and one on the island of Santa María.
Eight local transmission chains are active, three on the island of São Miguel, two on Terceira, two shared between São Miguel and São Jorge, and one on São Jorge.
Since the outbreak began, 585 cases have been detected, with 319 recoveries and 16 deaths.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,305,039 deaths derived from more than 53.4 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 3,305 people died from 211,266 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 at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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