The Ministry of Health has detected a outbreak in Laviana Which affects 25 persons. his origin son of teenagers related to each other that have infected people in their family and social environment. To date, no community transmission has been identified related to any leisure or restaurant establishment.
The age of the affected, What are they asymptomatic or refer mild symptomatology, this between the 14 and the 68 years. Everyone has been told home isolation. Likewise, close contacts have undergone PCR and are already in quarantine.
The general director of Public Health, Rafael Cofiño, assures that “the epidemiological links between the different people in the outbreak are clearly defined.” From the counseling they don’t rule out adopt measures such as activation of the ‘orange alert’ decreed last August in five municipalities in eastern Asturias.
The Epidemiological Surveillance Service continues to study the close contacts and monitor the evolution of the outbreak to adopt, where appropriate, special measures, as has been done in other areas of the Principality. In Laviana, between September 8 and 15, have been detected 31 cases, of which 25 are related to this outbreak.
Salud recalled that a outbreak refers to the situation where they appear three or more infected people. In the residential centers of elders is declared when detecting one or more cases, both in residents and workers. The definition of outbreak serves to dimension a specific situation in which it is necessary to establish specific surveillance measures. Both in isolated positives and in these foci, the study of close contacts is always carried out.
In addition, health authorities may consider the development of larger studies necessary. It is in these special situations that it is decided to carry out, in addition to the study of close contacts, an analysis extended to the clientele that has come to the establishment in a given period.
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