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Coronavirus in Argentina: concern for several health workers infected at the Paroissien hospital in La Matanza

4/23/2020, 6:49:18 PM


They suspect they became infected on Easter Sunday during a lunch.

04/23/2020 - 15:23

  • Clarín.com
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There is concern in the Buenos Aires Government. To the bad news of the massive contagions among the health personnel in the Belgrano hospital in San Martín, now the Paroissien hospital in La Matanza is added , where there are at least  five infected .

Although there are 20 other employees who were pre-emptively isolated : it is suspected that the number of infected could rise to 15.

Although no statement has been issued from the La Matanza hospital, there are also no official details on how the contagion would have occurred among the health workers of the hospital located on Route 3, in Isidro Casanova.

"No one broke the quarantine. What happened was that on Easter day a meal was made among the Guard personnel , there were around 25 or 30 people, "said a hospital nurse who preferred not to give her name, to the Non-Fiction portal.

And he closed: "Among them there was a positive who did not know , and several were infected. They were not wearing masks and that is why supervisors, doctors, nurses, all were infected."

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