04/24/2020 - 16:50
- Clarín.com
- Zonal
A one-year-four-month-old baby from Rafael Calzada became the second youngest among those infected with coronavirus in the southern Conurbano region, one week after the Covid-19 positive of another baby, six years old, was confirmed. months in Quilmes.
The youngest case until this Friday in Argentina is that of a three-month-old baby, from a family in Entre Rios, who became infected in Chaco in the last days of March.
Rafael Calzada's baby, in Almirante Brown's party, had been taken by his mother to the Arturo Oñativia Hospital, because he had a picture of fever, mild cold and diarrhea.
On the recommendation of the doctors on call, he underwent a swab to test for coronavirus, while the corresponding treatment was prescribed for the symptoms presented. And they both went home.
On Wednesday, when the results of the testing were available and the Covid-19 infection was confirmed, the baby was isolated in the pediatric sector of Oñativia with his mother.
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Watch the specialIn the hospital they confirmed that the little one is well, stable and controlled - just like his mother - 24 hours a day by Pediatric medical personnel.
Neither the child's mother nor father had symptoms of coronavirus. In addition, both were tested negative. However, they will be retested as a precaution, due to the closeness with your child.
Since last week, the results of the Covid-19 tests take a maximum of 72 hours, since they began to be carried out in the laboratories of the El Cruce hospitals , by Florencio Varela, and Fiorito , in Avellaneda. Before, when they were centralized in the Malbrán laboratory in Capital, they could take up to a week.
In addition to this, there are two other positive cases at the Oñativia Hospital: a 52-year-old woman and a 57-year-old man, a Burzaco neighbor and driver of the 266 bus line.
The latest official report released by the Municipality of Almirante Brown indicates that 26 positive cases of coronavirus are registered in the district, of which two have already been discharged. Of the 26, 15 are women -a 57.69% - and 11 men -42.31% -. in reverse of the world trend.
Meanwhile, 306 tests carried out in the Party were negative and as of Wednesday there were 152 cases under study. Admiral Brown has already had two deaths from coronavirus: a 67-year-old man from Longchamps, and an 88-year-old woman.
As reported, the 22 patients who currently have the disease are hospitalized at home, where possible, or in hospitals and clinics in the Municipality and the City of Buenos Aires.
The Municipality pointed out that Epidemiology personnel carry out "daily monitoring" of patients with home hospitalization, suspected cases tested and awaiting laboratory results, and those who have been in close contact with confirmed patients.
JT