He epidemiologist at the Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña (CHUAC), Antón Acevedo asks citizens to request the completion of a test PCR in contact with your health center at the slightest symptom of Covid 19 to continue containing the incidence of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The protocol is already in place to detect a positive case in the shortest possible time. The contacts of the infected person are traced from 48 hours before and after the test and PCR is done on all of them.
Speed of detection is the key
If it is detected quickly, we avoid community spread and sprouts, he says. “At the slightest symptom that the citizen has, that he does not withdraw to request an appointment to do a PCR because at this moment we have the capacity to do it. From what we are seeing it is spreading.”
Antón Acevedo points out that the situation regarding the virus is very positive because outbreaks are detected earlier worldwide and there is more capacity to diagnose and react to them.
In favor of the mobile tracking app
The specialist considers that from an epidemiological point of view it is time to activate the mobile application for tracking those affected by Covid 19. It is supporter of a progressive return to normality without losing habits such as the safety distance, masks or hand washing.
40 percent of the new cases detected are asymptomatic, according to Health. Acevedo considers that they may have symptoms but they are very mild and that it is not yet determined whether they transmit the infection or may have sequelae.
Last balance of cases in the health area
Two people remain hospitalized in the University Hospital of A Coruña diagnosed with Covid-19. There are still 109 active cases in the health area, as yesterday, and the same people continue with treatment at home, 107, according to data provided by the Galician Health Service. There are also no patients in the FIA with coronavirus. The number of people cured is at 2,515.
There are also no changes in residences for the elderly in the A Coruña area. Four users of the Eirís, the Santa Teresa Jornet, they remain infected, one of Caser A Zapateira, in addition to a worker from Eirís and another from the residence Remanso.
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