Governor Wanda Vázquez tonight recommended “social distancing” or isolation for 14 days for people who sat from rows K to O at the Hiram Bithorn Stadium last Sunday during “National Zalsa Day.”
The determination was made after information was received that the Panamanian tourist was in Puerto Rico before his positive diagnosis at coronavirus COVID-19 and participated in various activities.
Vázquez Garced indicated that he would be issuing an executive order to prevent public employees affected by this determination from having no charges on their work licenses. It also recommended that parents under these categories not send their children to school.
Isolation would be until March 22, when the 14 days are up, or until further notice.
At a press conference, the first executive indicated that the government task force contacted the man today, a 56-year-old doctor who confessed that he already had symptoms of fever on March 7 and 8, in which he participated in a danceable at the Sheraton hotel in San Juan and on the “National Day of Zalsa”. The man was sitting in row M.
“Given this situation, on the recommendation of the CDC, that everyone who attended the festival who were in the VIP ranks on lines K, L, M, N and O should remain in social distance at home,” said the governor. He stressed that the CDC recommends, as it happened in an open site, that the measures be taken with people sitting two rows forward and two rows behind possible contact.
Similarly, he added that the federal agency will verify the test that was done to the doctor to validate the diagnosis.
In detail, Vázquez Garced reported that the patient traveled from Miami to New York on February 29, where he stayed until March 4, when he returned to Panama. On March 5, he left Panama for Puerto Rico, where he stayed with four other people in an apartment in Isla Verde.
Already on March 7, he began to present symptoms, particularly fever, but the doctor continued his activities, said the president.
During his time in Puerto Rico, it was reported that the infected also shared with a young Puerto Rican who was interviewed by the “task force” and who currently has no symptoms. Both she and the young man who rented her the apartment in Isla Verde remain under preventive surveillance.
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