Vanesa Lopez
05/28/2020 - 12:13
- Clarín.com
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La Villa Itati , in Quilmes, is large and many people live. Neighbors say it is larger and has more people than the municipality or the media reports. " There are not 15 thousand inhabitants, there are many more. They are 57 hectares. 5 or 6 families live in a house. There are entire families who sleep in a 3 x 3 room. There are people who have more than 6 boys. This is enormous" , says Eduardo Domínguez, who together with other neighbors improvises a dining room on a corner, in the middle of the street, and they tray house by house. Many of them do not have water. And they assure that, in the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, no one brings them alcohol gel, bleach, or water to wash their hands.
This Thursday morning they started doing a census and testing . It is part of the Detect program of the Ministry of Health. So far 11 positive cases of Covid-19 had been detected in Villa Itatí, but the results of the swabs this Thursday will be in the coming days.
"There must be 10,000 people to see. Some 2,000 houses, more or less," sources from the municipality of Quilmes tell Clarín . They assure that they will not put up fences as happened in Villa Azul, on the Avellaneda side "Nom no, it is impossible due to the characteristics of Itatí", the spokesperson comments.
The tours were door to door. Neighbors were asked if they had symptoms compatible with Covid-19. Photo: Luciano Thieberger
Clarín accompanied health promoters from the Combative Class Current in a tour. They beat house to house. "Hello, we are doing a coronavirus survey. Do you have a fever? Cough? Sore throat? " They asked each member of the family one by one. If they had or had any positive symptoms, they would take a swab to a truck from the Ministry of Health.
A two-block row of people with symptoms formed. They made him an epidemiological file and a swab. Photo: Luciano Thieberger
There, the row of symptomatic was two blocks . About 33 people. "We are looking for symptoms. They do an epidemiological file and a swab. They fill out an affidavit. They take them home in isolation. Tomorrow they have the result. We are following them up," a doctor who participates in the operation tells Clarín . Until then, there were only suspects. In the previous operation, in which 7,000 people participated, there was a positive.
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