In view of the health data, the A Coruña-Cee area is in the Third Phase of the Contingency plan, which means that “for now” there is room in hospitals to receive admissions. Given the progression of infections and income, experts estimate that the second week of February will be the one with the highest hospital pressure.
Since last week, technicians have been supervising the installations set up in the field hospital of ExpoCoruña last March. They are preparing it for use in the event that the capacity of beds at the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC) is exceeded. Pilar Farjas, a member of the clinical committee, in Hoy por Hoy A Coruña has declared: “We are in a situation of striking pressure of new daily cases with incidence rates that it is never worth saying. Spain is with autonomous communities in a very critical situation, Galicia it has mobilized contingency plans and all hospitals are measuring response capacity well and it is a very difficult time. “
The Someso hospital facilities would come into operation in the event that the Coruña health area entered the Fourth Phase of the Contingency Plan, which would be at the time when the hospitals no longer had space for new COVID patients. In this case, according to the Xunta, the field hospital would begin to supply itself with oxygen towers, which is the only thing that is not ready. It would be a matter of hours before it became operational. The field hospital currently has 240 beds with the possibility of expanding to 400. In any case, the beds would be occupied by coronavirus patients in the conditions in which they would be in the plant. The ICUs will be kept in the different hospital centers.
Wastewater study reveals many more people with coronavirus than officially registered
Today there are some 7,600 carriers of coronavirus in the metropolitan area of A Coruña. It is the calculation made by the team of researchers from the CovidBens on the presence of viral load in wastewater and sludge from the Bens treatment plant in the municipalities of A Coruña, Arteixo, Oleiros, Cambre and Culleredo. The figure is much higher than the 4,414 active cases diagnosed by the health area, which includes many more municipalities.
This report works as an alert system that can anticipate health data on the progression of the disease by a couple of weeks. Information that, as happened with the first study carried out at the Bens Wastewater Treatment Plant, can be used by health authorities to anticipate the adoption of measures.
The mayor of A Coruña, Inés Rey, qualifies the data as “very worrying” and urges the public to avoid social contacts and restrict them only to cohabitants. The Bens treatment plant will publish every week the data on the presence of Covid19 in the wastewater of A Coruña and its metropolitan area.
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