The coronavirus pandemic accumulates 3,271 infected in the Basque Country, after 543 new positives have been detected in the last 24 hours, and the deceased are now 155, of whom 22 have died throughout yesterday.
The Ministry of Health has released the data on the virus, which so far has killed 3,434 people in Spain as a whole and has infected 47,610, of which 5,367 have been cured.
In the case of the Basque Country, 543 infections place today’s data among the highest figures recorded to date, behind the peak recorded on Sunday 15, when 630 new cases were recorded.
46 residents and 15 workers affected
The nursing homes in Bizkia have 12 users with confirmed coronavirus positives, plus another 34 people hospitalized with COVID-19, and they have 15 workers who have also tested positive, the Provincial Council has reported.
Of the 155 authorized residences for the elderly in Bizkaia, which have 10,748 places, there are 21 centers with affected residents, of which one has completed the 14-day period of isolation without new cases, as indicated by the Provincial Council on Wednesday in a note.
At the end of the day on Tuesday, the number of elderly people in residences with confirmed positive were 12, and the users of these centers who are hospitalized, 34.
In addition, there are 15 workers with confirmed positive and another 73 in isolation (without confirmation of the coronavirus).
ELA requests more measures from the Bilbao City Council after 11 confirmed cases
The ELA union has described the management of the Bilbao City Council in the coronavirus crisis as “chaotic” and has asked it to adopt additional measures, after the appearance in the Consistory of “11 confirmed cases, 22 awaiting results and a a good number more with symptoms but without testing. “
In a note, ELA urges the mayor, Juan Mari Aburto, to “take charge of this situation now” and “take the appropriate measures” that “prevent the chain” of contagions in municipal offices.
He stressed that the increase in positive cases of coronavirus in the City Council means “more workers in quarantine, and again improvisation of the decisions that have to be made in the areas and with the affected colleagues.”
ELA has asked the City Council to “keep essential services in each area to a minimum” and to “close all municipal offices to the public,” including the cemetery, where “family and citizen access is still allowed.”
He has also requested that rapid tests be carried out on all workers who show symptoms or who have been in contact or working with colleagues who have tested positive, something that, in his opinion, would be “essential for groups such as the Municipal Police, Fire or Ambulance “.
ELA also demands that the Prevention Service be strengthened, where according to this union there is only one technician operating, and that PPE be provided to all those who need it.
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