Coronavirus in Ourense |The new positives will communicate by phone or via web

The Department of Health changes the protocol to monitor the contacts of positive Covid, since it does not see the tracking efficient and will stop calling: “If we talk about 5.000 cases a day, each case generates between 4.8 and 5.2 contacts, so we would be generating 25.000 daily contacts, ”said the director Xeral de Saúde Public, Carmen Durán Parrondo yesterday.Thus, people who are communicated as contact for a positive will receive an SMS with the instructions.They will be in surveillance, but they will not have PCR or antigen, except in vulnerable cases.They should not be isolated, but they will avoid going to very busy places.

Likewise, Health has prepared other types of measures to decongest primary care at the health and administrative level.Citizens with symptoms may request a test to detect COVID without contact.In addition, from the next few days, this result can be informed through a web page, as well as in the pharmacy offices in which the test is carried out.The objective is that the positives can be declared in the "most agile" way without this administrative task falling on primary school professionals, as noted by the Department of Health, Julio García Comesaña.

Coronavirus en Ourense | Los nuevos positivos lo comunicarán por teléfono o vía web

Yes, people who have been in contact with a positive that are not vaccinated, immunosodepress, as well as transmission cases from mounts or beta or gamma variants should be done quarantine.In these cases, they must remain isolated at their home the seven days after the last contact.The follow -up center will call them on the phone twice during the isolation period: the first day to communicate the start of the quarantine and the seventh to indicate the end of it and the beginning of three days of surveillance.