The Mayor of Aveiro, Ribau Esteves, confirmed this Monday that 15 elderly people from the Santa Casa da Misericórdia home died after contracting the covid-19.
The mayor said that of the 105 users of the home located in the Social Complex of Moita, in Oliveirinha, 77 were positive for covid-19, in the screening tests that were completed last week. There are also 22 employees who are also infected and eight who have had a negative result.
This case is, so far, the most serious recorded in the municipality, but the president says that the institution has taken all the necessary measures, with the creation of “a positive wing, with autonomous teams and circuits”.
The mayor also left a “wake-up call”, stating that there are households waiting for covid-19 screening tests to be carried out that were planned and that it was not possible to carry out because there are no swabs to collect samples to go to the laboratory.
