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A couple who landed in Madrid through a flight from Peru enters through Covid

A marriage that came to Madrid coming from a flight from Peru has been entered into the October 12 Hospital after going to the ER of the center with symptoms of the disease and later testing positive for the PCR test.

This has been indicated to Europa Press by sources from the hospital center to detail that these two people went this Thursday by their own means to the emergency department of the hospital with symptoms compatible with coronavirus. In this situation and like any patient, the Covid circuit of the center was activated and they were isolated while the PCR test, which was positive, and were admitted.




Just two days ago they were in Peru, where a relative died of Covid-19 and they lived with their daughter who is also hospitalized with coronavirus.

As La Sexta has advanced, just two days ago they were in Peru, where a family member died after failing to overcome pneumonia caused by Covid-19 and they lived with their daughter who is also admitted to the Andean country due to coronavirus.

From the Ministry of Health they have detailed that the regional Public Health Service is doing epidemiological surveys to “trace” possible suspected cases and identify their contacts since their arrival at the Barajas airport. However, they have stressed that it is up to Foreign Health to search for the contacts of these two infected on the flight they arrived in Madrid.


This type of imported cases require special monitoring by our system ”



The Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, explained that these people have been detected as two positive cases and the network of Public Health trackers has already identified the contacts. These people, according to what he said in statements to La Sexta collected by Europa Press, are followed up in case they need to be isolated or if a PCR is necessary.

“This type of imported cases require special monitoring by our system,” he riveted. it was detected that they were both positive Covid and an epidemiological survey is made and the contact network is established, the technical trackers of public health make that contact and if they have to be isolated or if they have to do PCR, these imported cases require follow-up special for our system.



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