Health emergency coordination group: update of 27 February 2020
Feb 27 2020
The Coordination Group for health emergencies, at the end of today's meeting, confirms the first case of infection with a new coronavirus (COVID-19) in a San Marino citizen, which was widely expected to happen due to the characteristics of the virus; this circumstance did not therefore surprise the table for the management of this emergency.
It is an 88-year-old person with chronic polypathology, previously hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases department of the "Infermi" Hospital in Rimini on February 25, due to an already compromised clinical picture. Confirmation of positivity to the new coronavirus was communicated this morning to the ISS Health Department. The epidemiological investigation shows that the patient did not travel abroad or even to the red areas of northern Italy.
The operational protocols already prepared in compliance with the ordinances issued and which transpose the indications of the international bodies in particular of the WHO and which in a highly precautionary way include the maximum surveillance and prophylaxis measures of public health were immediately activated. At this moment, a health team is reconstructing all the close contacts of the person considered at risk, on which the measures set out in the ordinance n.1 of 22 February 2020 and the operating protocol adopted at the health level are being applied.
In compliance with current provisions, the doctor who assisted the positive patient with COVID-19 was placed in home quarantine together with his family members; and everyone is doing well right now. A substitute medical practitioner has already been identified by the Primary Care Department. Citizens are informed that the patient has never visited the Health Center of Borgo Maggiore and that the hospital environments where he passed through for the first checks have been sanitized.
Citizens are reminded that in case of respiratory ailments, accompanied or not by fever, it is necessary to contact their doctor or the Medical Guard by telephone and not to go to the Emergency Department or Health Centers.
For information, contact 0549 994001 or the Interforce Operations Center on 0549 888888 for any reports. The invitation to San Marino citizens is renewed to spontaneously limit routine access to the hospital or to the clinics of territorial medicine, which are operational for emergencies and priority activities.
https://www.sanmarinortv.sm/news/com...o-2020-a184304
Feb 27 2020
The Coordination Group for health emergencies, at the end of today's meeting, confirms the first case of infection with a new coronavirus (COVID-19) in a San Marino citizen, which was widely expected to happen due to the characteristics of the virus; this circumstance did not therefore surprise the table for the management of this emergency.
It is an 88-year-old person with chronic polypathology, previously hospitalized in the Infectious Diseases department of the "Infermi" Hospital in Rimini on February 25, due to an already compromised clinical picture. Confirmation of positivity to the new coronavirus was communicated this morning to the ISS Health Department. The epidemiological investigation shows that the patient did not travel abroad or even to the red areas of northern Italy.
The operational protocols already prepared in compliance with the ordinances issued and which transpose the indications of the international bodies in particular of the WHO and which in a highly precautionary way include the maximum surveillance and prophylaxis measures of public health were immediately activated. At this moment, a health team is reconstructing all the close contacts of the person considered at risk, on which the measures set out in the ordinance n.1 of 22 February 2020 and the operating protocol adopted at the health level are being applied.
In compliance with current provisions, the doctor who assisted the positive patient with COVID-19 was placed in home quarantine together with his family members; and everyone is doing well right now. A substitute medical practitioner has already been identified by the Primary Care Department. Citizens are informed that the patient has never visited the Health Center of Borgo Maggiore and that the hospital environments where he passed through for the first checks have been sanitized.
Citizens are reminded that in case of respiratory ailments, accompanied or not by fever, it is necessary to contact their doctor or the Medical Guard by telephone and not to go to the Emergency Department or Health Centers.
For information, contact 0549 994001 or the Interforce Operations Center on 0549 888888 for any reports. The invitation to San Marino citizens is renewed to spontaneously limit routine access to the hospital or to the clinics of territorial medicine, which are operational for emergencies and priority activities.
https://www.sanmarinortv.sm/news/com...o-2020-a184304
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