A municipality denounced the UOCRA and a prepaid for spreading "false positives" of coronavirus

08/05/2020 - 16:20

• Clarín.com
• Politics

The Government of San Nicolás criminally denounced the representatives of the local section of the Construction Workers Union (UOCRA) and the prepaid Servin Life for generating "fear and alarm" in the population by spreading "false positives" of coronavirus.

He accuses them of reporting in the local media that 7 employees of the AESA company tested positive for Covid-19 on a total of 114 swabs that the union demanded be done despite the fact that, by protocol, they did not apply as suspicious cases.

According to Clarín , from the UOCRA they pressed for all workers to be tested and it was the Servin Life provider who carried out the swabs and sent them to be analyzed in a Buenos Aires laboratory. Juan Manuel Rebuffo, one of the representatives of the UOCRA in San Nicolás, pointed out that there were 7 workers who tested positive and are still isolated, despite the fact that the counter-test stated otherwise.

It is that upon learning of the situation, the municipality ordered that a countertest of these cases be carried out at the Maiztegui hospital in Pergamino, which is where the swabs of San Nicolás are analyzed, and all of them tested negative .

"The demonstrations regarding the 'false positives' quickly spread to the community, generating fear, alarm and concern among the inhabitants of the city, to the detriment of the temperament that is intended to be transmitted from the different levels of government, to avoid panic and confusion in the population and keep the emergency within real parameters, "says part of the criminal complaint that the Government led by Manual Passaglia filed with the Federal Prosecutor of San Nicolás.

The local health authorities were not aware of the 114 tests ordered by the prepaid due to the fact that these workers were not suspicious cases and, therefore, by protocol it was not appropriate to swab them.

From AESA, whose workers were performing functions at the MSU Energy firm, they told local authorities that the swabs were performed "only for union complaints and to return to normal work" and that these tests had "no medical indication or criteria scientist that justifies its realization ".

However, and despite the negative result of the tests analyzed by the Maiztegui, which is part of the network of laboratories endorsed by the Ministry of Health, the 7 workers continue to be considered as positive cases by union representatives and, based on their pressure , by the company.

The MSU Energy plant that was paralyzed by UOCRA representatives.

Of the 7 false positives, 6 are workers who live in San Nicolás and one in General Rojo, where the plant is located.

Currently, San Nicolás has 18 active cases, 28 people who carried the virus and recovered, and a fatal victim, according to data from health authorities.

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