COVID-19: Mértola chamber confirms if the Social Center of Montes Altos.
The Municipality of Mértola announced on its official website that "was today registered the first positive case of COVID-19 in the county."
In a statement signed by the president of the municipality, Jorge Rosa, It is made aware that it is a "user of the Social Center of Montes Altos, parish of Santana de Cambas ".The president of the Chamber Mértola justifies "after the official confirmation by the General Directorate of Health were immediately activated the appropriate procedures to the situation. Facilities at the Social Center of the High Mountains were closed, and users and employees will remain inside the building, to be carried out tests to all and to all ", ends.
The Municipality, adds that “coordination of the situation is of the Directorate General Health responsibility, which immediately began to perform tests to users and employees”, concluded.
Has learned the Lidador News, it is a lady 95 year old, who is hospitalized in Beja Hospital, following a fall that occurred in the home of the Social Center on Saturday, having initially been transported to the Health Center of Castro Verde in a vehicle of the institution.
Subsequently, given his state of health was transported by the Fire Ourique Volunteer for Beja Hospital, where would be the target of an operation. Likely to be subject to high medical test was Covid-19, which has proved to be as positive.
source with the Fire Volunteer Ourique, LN confirmed that the three elements of the corporation that made the old transport for Beja, are already waiting in isolation to them the Covid-19 screening tests.
This morning, LN had revealed that “there is a positive case in a district municipality, but that is not part of the data revealed today that should be taken during the meeting tomorrow”. This was either case, but as it was not officially assumed, It was not revealed to the municipality that belonged.
Beja District: Eighteen positive cases, two at home.
Like this, are eighteen positive cases in the district, wherein 17 They relate to four of 13 municipalities that are in the area of ​​influence of the Intermunicipal Community of the Lower Alentejo (CIMB) and Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA) and 1 in the area of ​​Community Intermunicipal Alentejo Litoral (Cimal) and Unity of the Alentejo Litoral Local Health (ULSAL), specifically the county of Odemira.
List by county: Serpa- 11, Beja- 3, Almodovar- 2, Mértola and Odemira- 1 each.
The other case in a home registered to a woman, of 80 year old, wearer's Social Center St. George and Lady of Reconciliation, in Vila Verde Ficalho, that since Monday is also admitted to the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja.
The institution has 36 users who have been subject to tests that were negative. As for employees to await the results, having an official, who voluntarily, auditioned, before the case detection in user at home, tested negative.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
