Covid-19: Death toll from outbreak at Reguengos de Monsaraz home rises to eight

“These numbers are verified in a universe of about 1,500 tests with known result” until Wednesday, day when “results of approximately 130 tests were known”, underlined the municipality, forecasting for today and Friday the realization of ” about 150 more tests “.

A source from the chamber contacted by the Lusa agency explained that the Health Authorities have already recorded “the first cured case”, that of “a nurse” at the FMIVPS home (so the number of infected workers at the institution dropped from 23 on Wednesday to today’s 22).

At home, the first two deaths of this outbreak detected at the institution occurred on June 18, with the death of a user aged around 70 (on the 24th) and a user of 92 years (on the 25th), who now the death of this 94 year old woman joins.

The other deaths were of patients admitted to the Hospital of Espírito Santo de Évora (HESE), more precisely four elderly women, 82 years old (last Saturday), 91 and 89 years old (on Monday) and, now, this 92 years old, on Wednesday, the day that a 40-year-old employee of the home died, also hospitalized.

In today’s statement, signed by the Mayor and Municipal Civil Protection Authority, José Calixto, it is stated that, “regarding the control of the spread” of the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, on Wednesday, “there is no registered any positive case in the community, of the tests with known results during the day ”.

A total of 14 home users are hospitalized in Évora, three of whom are in intensive care, and one of the infected people in the community is also already hospitalized at HESE, in the intensive care unit, the municipality revealed.

Among FMIVPS professionals who tested positive for covid-19, everyone is recovering in their homes.

The Area Dedicated to Covid-19 (ADC) of Reguengos de Monsaraz, installed in the Multipurpose Pavilions of Parque de Feiras e Exposições, continues in activity, carrying out tests in the community according to the decisions of the Public Health Authority, “being predictable the maintenance of testing cadence, as well as testing in institutions, ”he added.

Portugal accounts for at least 1,579 deaths associated with covid-19 in 42,454 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).

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