The Ministry of Health has declared a new coronavirus outbreak in Asturias, the first related to a social celebration, in this case, a birthday. They are five members of two families from Health Area V, with head in Gijón. All affected people remain in home isolation with mild symptoms of the disease.
The outbreak is added to the 24 new positives, of which almost half (eleven cases) are related to the outbreaks declared in Llanes and Castropol, the one in the bar The good life from Gijón and the one that emerged on a student trip to Malaga.
In the case of Llanes, three new infections from the outbreak of Laura’s Terrace and the surf school Skull. In total, those affected number seven. The outbreak of the bar La Buena Vida, computes 5 new positives adding a total of 21. In Castropol, a new case brings the positives from the bar to 7 La Casilla and 2 more cases have been confirmed in the outbreak that affects a group of students who had traveled to Malaga. The Ministry of Health calls on customers of the La Casilla bar who have been in the aforementioned establishment between July 23 and August 1 to perform the PCR test.
The Minister of Health, Pablo Fernandez assured that the strategy followed in Asturias for the rapid detection of new infections is allowing the Principality to appear among the Spanish communities with a lower number of hospitalizations. According to the counselor, “The virus has not changed, but we have had a different detection strategy; we are going ahead “ and this has allowed Asturias figure among the communities with the lowest number of hospitalizations.
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