06/08/2020 - 21:22
- Clarín.com
- Society
The Ministry of Health modified this Monday the criteria to identify a suspected case of coronavirus and from this change it will no longer be necessary to have a fever to fit a possible case of infection.
It is that according to the change made by the Ministry, the first criterion to determine if a person is a suspected case of COVID-19, includes everyone with two or more of the following symptoms: fever of 37.5 Cº or more, cough, pain from throat, respiratory distress, lack of smell or taste (anosmia / dysgeusia), without another disease that fully explains the clinical picture.
In other words, if a person has two of these symptoms, such as cough and sore throat, but does not have a fever , they enter as a suspicious case.
To these characteristics, we must add the fact that this person has been in contact with confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 14 days ; or have an international travel history; or have a history of travel or residence in our country in areas of local coronavirus transmission, either community or conglomerate.
Any person who has two or more of the described symptoms and resides or works in closed or long-term institutions, that is, prisons, nursing homes, neuropsychiatric institutions, homes for girls and boys, will also be considered suspected cases of COVID-19. .
The official statement also explains that those who are essential personnel - security forces and the armed forces, and people who provide assistance to the elderly - will be suspected; and also to people residing in popular neighborhoods or native towns.