Guillermo Villarreal
05/30/2020 - 18:29
- Clarín.com
- Society
He traveled authorized, underwent treatments in two Buenos Aires sanatoriums, returned to his city, where he has a daughter, and the last thing he did was to keep quarantine. He went out, visited a friend and from that moment, Necochea returned to live with the pernicious Covid-19. They went from not registering cases in two months to adding 18 in a week and apparently, by the indications that the community collects in the meticulous work of spinning links, the list of infections will be increasing.
Amid the bad news, one was confirmed that brought some relief to health authorities. They were able to determine that "case zero" was this man who had traveled to Buenos Aires to carry out medical treatments.
She infected her friend, who is known here as the "index case" and she transmitted the virus to her family . On Saturday he began to feel some discomfort and even with mild symptoms, as he continues in these hours, the coronavirus test gave him positive .
The effect on his family was that of the pieces of a domino: his mother, 70, and his three children, 22, 24 and 25, were infected. In between, some went to a baby shower to which at least 30 people were invited and that meeting became a focus of infections: the pregnant couple and eight others are among those infected.
Clarín toured the streets of Necochea when the news of the baby shower that triggered a chain of infections in the City had reached the national media. Fear is how far the virus can spread.
The woman is 49 years old, she is a domestic staff on Sundays in a nursing home , at home she sells alcohol gel and chinstraps. She did not go to the baby shower, but was in charge of making the souvenirs .
At the moment, when confirming the positive case of the man who arrived from Buenos Aires, who also infected his daughter, there is no talk here of community transmission of the virus .
In Necochea, the last patient with Covid-19 had been discharged on April 23 . Just on Saturday May 23, when it was a month without positive cases, in a small house in the 9 de Julio neighborhood, on the outskirts of the spa, there was a meeting attended by at least 30 people. A clandestine baby shower.
The exact number of attendees is unknown because not everyone who was there that afternoon was located: in principle only half of them had voluntarily presented themselves, but when the number of positive cases was known, this Saturday many went to tell the container that the The community installed in front of the hospital that they had had some kind of contact with the infected families. Some were swabbed.
So yesterday afternoon, the municipal health secretary, Ruth Kalle, asked the neighbors to be "faithful" in the information they supply to the public system.
In this network, in search of cases, the inmates of the nursing home where "the index case" works were swabbed, only one of the seven inmates there tested positive.
The sixth case of Necochea positive coronavirus is a 48-year-old woman, health personnel in a center for the disabled where, also, a woman close to the "index case" family works . Anyway, specialists believe here that the woman would have been infected in Bariloche, from where she recently arrived, and where she had contact with foreigners. All those infected, Kalle said, are at home with mild symptoms.
Another 40 swabs sent the municipality to the Mar del Plata epidemiological institute, that is to say that in total they expected the result of 59 tests. On the night of this Friday it was learned that there were 12 other tests that were positive and that there are already 18 in the city. Kalle said that in these hours in the district there are 80 people who remain isolated.
Of the infected, only three are hospitalized: the man who imported the virus from CABA, the retired from the nursing home where the so-called index case works and the hostess of the baby shower, the pregnant woman.
"We knew this could happen and we said so in the emergency committee a week ago," said Mayor Arturo Rojas, who, based on these new positive tests, decided that starting this Saturday, the city will return to phase 1 of quarantine. .
Rojas watched the necochenses were relaxing . More than a month had passed without cases, many commercial activities had been authorized (always under strict sanitary controls), and some recreational ones, such as nautical ones. The weekend surfing had returned to the "gently sloping" beaches, as they are called here.
But they had to adjust their chinstrap. When the new results of the tests were not yet known, Rojas had said that he would not back down on the relaxation of the quarantine. He anticipated that he would take steps to adjust the controls such asclose the two entrances on routes 88 and 86, at night, at a time to be established; and that no one who is not duly authorized could enter the town and fine anyone who does not wear a mask.
But shortly before midnight on Friday, due to the multiplication of positive cases, he decided to return to page 0 : since yesterday only essential activities have been enabled.
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