The provisional balance of coronavirus-infected rises by Asturias Six cases according to the update of the Ministry of Health at noon this Friday. A balance that has undergone several changes throughout the day. First, due to the confirmation of two more positives, two people who had personal contact with the 48-year-old man diagnosed on Thursday in Gijón and which is related to the focus of Tordojón de Ardoz in Madrid. Shortly after, the case of the 85-year-old from Gijón diagnosed at the beginning of the week and now ruled out by the National Center for Microbiology, in Majadahonda. Rapid tests offered an erroneous diagnosis that has now been ruled out by this national center, and the woman is still admitted but to be treated exclusively for pneumonia from which she is progressing favorably.
Otherwise, the two new positives have been transferred to Central University Hospital of Asturias (HUCA) where this Friday the staff has been informed of the expansion to an entire plant – the ninth, specifically – of the area intended to attend to the most serious cases of the disease. For mild symptoms, the instruction is to maintain home isolation.
Beyond the precautions that are kept in this HUCA plant, measures are also taken in other units of the most important health center in Asturias. and in some departments of the building External consultations the health personnel work exceptionally with masks and gloves.
Going one step further, the officials union CSIF He has addressed the Ministry of Health and the management of the Principality Health Service (SESPA) to request that separating partitions be installed in health centers to avoid exposing their workers to the coronavirus. They speak specifically of administrative assistants or guards who serve in the admission services of hospitals, in the ER or health centers.
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