08/01/2021 8:34 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/01/2021 8:34 PM
The 62-year-old man who, after returning from a trip to Peru, did not comply with isolation and introduced the
Delta variant
of coronavirus in Córdoba had to be admitted to the Rawson hospital due to an
acute picture of bilateral pneumonia
.
As confirmed to
La Voz del Interior by
the director of the Rawson hospital, Miguel Díaz, the patient, known as case zero of the Delta variant in Córdoba, was admitted this Saturday.
“He remains under medical care in the intensive care unit of the hospital.
During the day on Sunday,
there was no evidence of improvement
in the clinical picture ”, stated the director Díaz.
The news is known when this Sunday
two new cases of the Delta variant
were confirmed
: one is linked to the case of the traveler from Peru and the other corresponds to a woman from San Francisco,
from a trip
from the United States, who was making isolation, according to the current protocol.
This Sunday two new cases of the Delta variant were confirmed.
Photo: EFE
Thus, there are
21 cases
with the Delta variant in Córdoba, 19 of which arose from the outbreak that produced the so-called case zero: it must be remembered that it arrived at the Buenos Aires Airport from Lima, Peru, with
negative PCR
before getting on the plane and go down.
But the control on the seventh day tested positive for the Delta variant: however, the traveler
had not complied with the isolation
and was reunited with relatives.
The
zero man
infected in Córdoba and led to an outbreak that affected 19 other people.
But there are also about
800 in preventive isolation
and a legal case was started investigating the Health Emergency Fiscal Unit, which already has
five defendants, including the hospitalized man
.
One of those people who was in contact with case zero and who contracted coronavirus with the Delta variant also
had to be admitted
to the Rawson hospital, the same one where the traveler was housed, in intensive care.
Testing is key to detecting the coronavirus.
Photo.
AFP
"She is a patient who tested positive for this variant, who is enduring
a picture of moderate pneumonia
," explained Díaz.
The court case
Of the five defendants, two are Peruvian citizens and are accused of
violating article 205
of the Penal Code, which penalizes anyone who violates the measures adopted to prevent the
spread of the pandemic
with 6 months to 2 years
.
"One of them violated the restriction rules imposed for having arrived in the country from abroad, and the other, for being their direct contact and not respecting the restrictions," reported from the Cordovan Public Prosecutor's Office.
The other
three defendants are Argentines
, all residents of Córdoba, and they are charged with having violated article 202 of the Penal Code, which has prison terms of 3 to 15 years for anyone who spreads a contagious disease.
There are 800 cases in preventive isolation.
Photo: Reuters
“It was found that they were
not isolated
despite knowing, after having performed the corresponding swabs, that they were positive for Covid 19 in its Delta variant.
The three violated the isolation and
opened their shops
”, they detailed.
All the accused are part of the same epidemiological link.
The Minister of Health of the Nation, Carla Vizzotti, referred this Saturday to the cases of the Delta variant notified in the country and raised the need for the provinces to carry out the controls: "We are with controls in Ezeiza, but
the work
is important
coordinated
with the different provinces and municipalities, "he remarked.
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