Notable increase in coronavirus cases in the Pontevedra-Salnés health area. In the last 24 hours they have registered 10 new positives; reaching 70 patients in the health area, although none of them are hospitalized, according to the latest SERGAS data.
In the sanitary area of Santiago, on which Deza and Barbanza depend, there are 63 positives, there are 8 more than yesterday.
In Galicia we reached 1,400 active cases. There are 57 hospitalized patients and 5 of them in intensive care. There are also 8 infected users in nursing homes. Coruña continues to be the most affected area with a total of 851 positives.
But also, in the health area of Pontevedra-Salnés there are 33 Montecelo hospital workers in quarantine. All of them for having direct contact with a patient who tested positive for coronavirus when he had been hospitalized for days.
According to the data provided by the Health Area Management, 84 PCRs have been carried out on these workers since last Friday, and so far only one has tested positive. It is an assistant in charge of cleaning the infected patient.
Among the 33 professionals who are in quarantine there are doctors, nurses, assistants, orderlies and cleaners. They belong to the areas of pulmonology, short stay, emergencies and cardiology; in which the patient who ended up dying last Saturday due to its severity was admitted.
The Healthcare Director of the health area, Dr. Sonia Fernández Arruty explained to this station that the patient who caused this quarantine was admitted in early August from Venezuela due to a serious heart ailment. The first PCR was negative for coronavirus, but a second was performed a few days later, when he was already at the plant, after learning that there was a positive case on the plane that arrived in Spain.
It was that second PCR that confirmed that he had COVID19, and the one that motivated the implementation of the internal protocol, with the consequent quarantine of the 33 health professionals who were in direct contact with the patient.
In this context, Vice President of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda reiterated this morning in A Lama that the Central Government has to Urgently approve a legislative change that allows the autonomies to apply restrictive measures, without the need for them to have to be endorsed by the Courts.
According to Alfonso Rueda, national protocols are required so that all Communities can act in the same way against the pandemic, but without the need to resort to the State of Alarm again.
Nightlife is suspended:
The nightlife entrepreneurs announce the disappearance of many businesses, after the entry into force of the closure of discos and pubs.
The businessmen accuse the Government to “criminalize” the sector and warn that with these measures there will be “definitive closures of many businesses.”
The employers of the sector maintain that closing the nightlife has been a “blow” and has caused “surprise” in the words of the president of the HOEMPO association. Víctor Pampín affirms that they feel persecuted despite the fact that, according to their data, they are the only ones who have activated a customer registry on the premises.
The business association warns that this situation will be unsustainable with the closure of many businesses and therefore raises the need to seek solutions. Among them, he proposes alternative schedules or the installation of terraces to compensate for losses. In the case of Pontevedra, HOEMPO hopes to meet as soon as possible with the council to find alternatives to the night closing.
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