The 49-year-old man admitted to the hospital remains stable within gravity. University Hospital of A Coruña in solitary confinement for coronavirus. The patient, who does not reside in Galicia, entered on Monday at one in the afternoon with symptoms of the ailment – respiratory problems – after arriving from Madrid in a shared car.
“The virus – clarifies Maria Jose Pereira, head of the preventive medicine service of CHUAC- is not circulating continuously, what we want is that this diffusion continues to be only in the narrow environment. It is necessary that the population is not affected by one more germ of the whole battery of germs that we already have and that already cause disease “.
The goal with isolation measures is to prevent it from becoming commonplace. The health personnel who treated the affected person is in quarantine at his home. Public Health has come into contact with the people who accompanied him in the car and with the citizens he met in the emergency room to activate the relevant protocols. They will be followed for 14 days.
The Xunta has confirmed that this man did not travel to Italy
“We do not suspect coronavirus unless the population comes from that risk area and that infection occurs 14 days after being in that area or, which is what is beginning to work, only in cases of severe pneumonia in which any other situation has been ruled out “, clarifies María José Pereira.
Health sources indicate that the virus it is less dangerous than a common flu and it is intended to prevent its spread as a prophylactic measure. The telephone number activated by the Xunta de Galicia to make inquiries about the coronavirus is 900 400 116.
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