Mexico: Suspected case of coronavirus in CDMX test positive on first test
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Suspected case of coronavirus in CDMX test positive on first test
It is a man who traveled to Italy; It is isolated and measures were taken as if the case was already confirmed
Televisa Newscasts SOURCE: televised newscasts FROM: CDMX, Mexico February 27, 2020 | 11:19 pm CST
The Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion, Hugo L?pez-Gatell, reported that a suspected case is analyzed for a possible coronavirus of a patient who is hospitalized at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases (INER).
In an interview for En Punto with Denise Maerker, he explained that the patient tested positive for the first test that was performed on Thursday morning and that he is isolated.
On whether it would be the first positive case, he said:
So far we have this communication because we want as we promised in almost real time to devote ourselves to events, a story about the case is a 35-year-old man who actually has the tendency to have been in the north in Italy which already with the new definition The case is a criterion for second suspicious case has mild respiratory symptoms There were some doubts there in the tweet that has been received to what he meant about mild is a clinical classification. What does it mean? That is not serious. That is, his symptoms are headache, muscle pain, fever, cough, sneezing, etc., but he does not have pneumonia. It was attended in the morning at the National Institute of Respiratory Diseases and it was decided to leave it in isolation before fulfilling a suspicious case since the INER already has the diagnostic technology to do the test, we have a reactive test means that the The test itself is positive but here the accuracy is not yet considered a diagnostic confirmation of Covid-19 because the INER diagnostic technique was barely implemented this week and is still in the process of quality verification by the national reference laboratory ”.
The undersecretary stressed that a second test is performed.
Exactly in the first sieve, which I insist is not yet confirmed, it was positive in the INER itself a second test was given that gave the same result, but with the same machinery, ”said Undersecretary L?pez-Gatell
- This had not happened in any previous case?
We had one that gave a false positive result when we were standardizing the test at the INER very early in the year and just until the verification procedure is done according to the quality standards It can already be considered in that case at the beginning of the year it was discarded, and in this one a slope ”, commented Hugo L?pez-Gatell.
The confirmation, he said, is estimated to arise throughout the early hours of Friday.
Possibly already at dawn I have the president's call to be in the security meeting and if it were positive I would have the opportunity of the president to comment tomorrow, ”said L?pez-Gatell.
About the measures of the case:
Given the definition of a suspect case and in this case the first result we put him in isolation. I just hung up with the director of the Institute of Respiratory Diseases who confirms that he is in perfect condition is stable with mild symptoms and in an isolated room and now the contacts that are currently being studied are initially five relatives and are precisely under study and there will be other contacts We will have to study.
In his Twitter account, Undersecretary L?pez-Gatell wrote that it is a case with mild symptoms, which, after having obtained a positive result to Covid-19 in the INER, “a second sample is being analyzed at the Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference (Indre).
“The diagnosis is not yet final. As soon as the tests are finished we will announce the result, ”he said.
Tonight, the Ministry of Health reported that there is also a suspicious case of the new coronavirus in the state of Hidalgo, which is waiting for the results of the confirmatory test.
