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The 34 users and 20 employees of the Centro Comunitario de Refoios, Casa da Caridade Ponte de Lima, were examined today after the confirmation of a case of SARS-CoV-2 infection in an employee, the director said today.
Contacted today by the Lusa agency, the director of the institution, Agostinho Freitas, said that, together with the president of the district civil protection commission, who is also the mayor of Ponte de Lima, Víctor Mendes, “a laboratory was hired private that during this morning rapid tests have been carried out on all users and employees.
“This without prejudice to the health authority carrying out new tests. We need to know the magnitude of the problem as soon as possible, in this response, so that we can act, “he said.
In addition to the Refoios Community Center, the Casa da Caridade in Ponte de Lima houses the Residential Structure for the Elderly (ERPI) of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, where 65 of the 67 users and 18 of the 40 employees are infected with the new coronavirus.
Agostinho Freitas explained that “the employee of the Refoios Community Center had spent a few days at home, returned to work on Thursday,” on Friday “she had some symptoms” and, on Sunday, she received confirmation of the contagion with the new coronavirus.
The director of Casa da Caridade said that at the ERPI of Nossa Senhora da Conceição, located in the center of Ponte de Lima, the “situation is stabilized.”
“We are making arrangements with the health authority to, between now and Tuesday, test positive cases, but without symptoms for several days,” he said.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,251,980 deaths in more than 50 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,896 people died from 179,324 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 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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