Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
The first laboratory tests performed on nine Honduran coronavirus suspects will be ready Monday morning, the epidemiologist confirmed yesterday Roxana Araujo in press conference.
Araujo, spokesman for government on the issue of the coronavirus, he offered statements to report a suspicious case transferred yesterday afternoon from the School Hospital to National Thorax Hospital under strong security measures.
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The doctor said that it is a 26-year-old patient who entered San Pedro Sula on Saturday afternoon by land from Veracruz, Mexico, “with a respiratory problem.”
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He indicated that he referred to surveillance of the School Hospital and this unit contacted the Ministry of Health because it had a cough, fever, respiratory distress, but also two more features: nosebleeds and bleeding when coughing.
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“These characteristics make the Hospital Escuela suspect a picture compatible with tuberculosis,” he said, adding that for that reason he referred to the Chest. Araujo explained that “the tests of H1N1, dengue, tuberculosis, leptospirosis and COVID-19 ”.
The first results will be ready tomorrow (Sunday) and that of COVID-19 will be on Monday morning, ”he said after adding that Salud has nine suspects with this patient.
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On the transfer of the patient yesterday with all the security measures, Araujo said that the protection protocol was followed because it comes from Mexico, a country that already has 7 confirmed cases of coronavirus.
“It comes from Veracruz and although the confirmed cases are in Mexico City and Chiapas, for responsibility, a series of exams will be done, ”he added.
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The Minister of Health, Alba Consuelo Flores, told a press conference from the Presidential House that there are nine cases under surveillance; six suspects who are in permanent surveillance in Tegucigalpa and who arrived in the last week, and three more cases that are in San Pedro Sula and who presented with flu-like pictures. He said that surveillance will continue in the different places of access to the country, seeking to detect whether symptomatic or asymptomatic patients arrive, to take immediate measures.
Flores called on the population to “not be alarmed; the coronavirus strongly attacks people who have previous conditions, hypertension, diabetes, heart disease, which are diseases that could be associated and are a risk factor. ”
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