The mayor says to be a “worry” this outbreak, once “puts at risk” people with “great weakness” and “disease prone”.
An outbreak of Covid-19 in a home in Almodovar (Beja) already infected 44 people, between users and employees, an elderly person having already died following this outbreak., the mayor of the municipality told the Lusa agency this Saturday, Antonio Boot.
According to the mayor, who do you think the outbreak may have “trend” to increase in the institution, are at this time infected in the Nossa Senhora da Graça de Padrão Home 37 of 52 users and seven employees.
“The situation is better controlled because all of them [users and employees] are vaccinated, what makes the suffering less, the effects are smaller, the consequences of this virus is less, be more minimized in relation to what we used to have”, said.
The mayor of Almodôvar says it is a “worry” this outbreak, once “puts at risk” people with “great weakness” and “disease prone”.
“Then we also have difficulty finding people to work with., to replace these collaborators who have to work in a mirror and who, de facto, they are starting to see the teams very small and the attention we give to our seniors has to be maintained at quality levels, to guarantee the work”, he added.
António Bota also explained that the infected users are “isolated” of the other users of the institution.
“The municipality is trying to put people in the home who can help., knowledgeable contractors, so that they can give users the least amount of treatment., as little support as possible in a situation like this”, said.
The Covid-19 pandemic did at least 4.268.017 dead all over the world, enter more than 200,8 millions of cases of new coronavirus infection, since WHO detected the disease in China in late December 2019, according to the latest France-Press balance based on official data.
In Portugal, since the beginning of the pandemic, in March 2020, died 17.457 people and were registered 984.985 cases of infection, according to the General Directorate of Health.
Respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, central china city, and currently with identified variants.
