The Close Contact Surveillance Service and the General Directorate of Public Health are investigating the possible connection of the coronavirus outbreak.Sporting de Gijón, which accumulates 34 positives and more than 120 close contacts, with the British strain of the virus found in two cases in this community, specifically in Avilés.
This was stated this Saturday by the covid program coordinator of the Ministry of Health, María José Villanueva. He stressed that with this focus detected in the football club “it is clear” the relationship between the spread of coronavirus and social relationships in both homes and hotels.
He stressed that this focus already affects 34 cases that have tested positive and also 120 close contacts, “understanding as such not the merely sports of the Club, but the cases generated there more close contacts linked to family, friends and social contacts.” Thus, some of these narrow cases have already turned into positives.
“It is necessary to take extreme precautions in social relations and allow the Directorate General of Public Health to complete the search for this whole outbreak, plus possible outbreaks arising from the British strain in both the initial family environment and in sports and in the educational that can be secondary to this outbreak, “Villanueva said.
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