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Date Published: 17/09/2020
ARCHIVED - Covid news round-up for the Murcia Region Thursday 17th September
23 health centres on red alert; 19 teachers and 52 pupils quarantined in first days of return to school; Murcia will reach 1,000 cases a day in October if current trend continues
Other Covid news in Murcia on Thursday 17th: A round-up of news items relating to Covid-19 in order to avoid filling the news with nothing other than coronavirus!
Five deaths and 447 positives; Coronavirus Region of Murcia 17th September; Click to see the full statistics for today, with a detailed breakdown by municipality
Murcia will reach 1,000 cases a day in October if the rate of contagions continues to increase at its current rate:
Professor of Physics at the University of Murcia (UMU) Antonio Guirao, supported and funded by the Carlos III Health Institute of Madrid, uses mathematical models to make simulations on how the pandemic will evolve, both in Spain and in Murcia, and has proven to be surprisingly accurate in his predictions to date.
This week he has published updated information with different scenarios. In model 1, if measures stay as they are now, he predicts that at the beginning of October, «the incidence could be doubled with a thousand daily infections and an accumulated of up to 20,000 people affected in the Region of Murcia “, he said in an interview with la Opinión, causing “ more stress, saturation and collapse of hospitals in the next month."
In scenario 2, the effectiveness of the measures that are being applied improves, and the Region of Murcia would reach 20,000 infections in November and not at the beginning of October, as the first formula foresees. By this point, nationally, Spain would reach one million cases.
He said in the interview that when the restrictions were relaxed after confinement, the epidemic, which was controlled, began to grow again, although in a slower way than it did in March, since in summer "We had social distancing and the use of a mask, something that we did not have at the beginning."
However, now the cases have been doubling every two weeks, says Guirao. At the same time, more PCR tests are also being carried out than in the first wave and even mild cases are registered, whereas previously many people had the virus at home in isolation without being diagnosed because there was no capacity to cover the entire affected population. This is also reflected in the percentage of mortality. While in the first wave mortality was 10 percent, now it is at 0.5 percent, "but not because it is lower but because the total number of confirmed cases of infections that are diagnosed is much higher."
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23 health centres on red alert across the region:
Red: When a centre is on red level, only telephonic appointments are available with the doctor unless there is an emergency situation. In the case that a presencial appointment is given, the patient is first assessed by a care worker before seeing a doctor in order to protect medical professionals and make sure the time of the doctor is being well spent.
A triage system also operates, so that patients arriving with respiratory symptoms are treated in a separate circuit from other patients, helping to isolate potential risk patients.
Health Area I (West Murcia) the health centers of Nonduermas remain at red level; Alcantarilla; San Andrés; El Palmar; Mule; Alcantarilla-Sangonera; Murcia-Sangonera La Verde; Aljucer and Alhama de Murcia.
In area II: Isaac Peral, in Cartagena,; Puerto de Mazarrón and Fuente Álamo
Area III : Lorca Centro; San Diego; South Lorca; Lorca Sutullena; Totana Norte and Totana Sur.
In Area IV (Northwest), the Barranda health center is at red level, and in Area V (Altiplano), that of Jumilla, while in Area VI (Vega Media del Segura), that of Lorquí, and in VII (Murcia Este), those of Barrio del Carmen and Floridablanca.
Orange: Patients attending Orange alert centres must request appointments in advance and telephone consultations are undertaken wherever possible.
The centers at the orange level are those of Espinardo; Algezares; Pains; Cartagena-Old Town; Cartagena East; Cartagena West; San Antón; Pozo Estrecho; Moratalla; Caravaca de la Cruz; 'Mariano Yago' and 'Francisco Palao', in Yecla; Santa María de Gracia, Ceutí; Cabezo de Torres; The Torres de Cotillas, Molina Sur, Murcia Sur; Vistabella; Beniel; Puente Tocinos; El Infante; Santomera and Alquerías
Jumilla issues 30 denuncias in the first few days of returning to a “flexibilised phase one confinement”. With the highest rate of covid in the whole of the region, Jumilla has been put back into confinement. In the first few days 30 sanctions have been issued for not wearing masks, exceeding the maximum capacity permitted in a vehicle and travelling outside of the permitted area.
La Rafa camping in Bullas closes sports facilities due to the positive of a worker until 21st September.
Totana; requests additional attention from its residents as the municipality records 73 cases in the 24 hours: if nothing changes, the municipality is heading back into confinement
21 groups from the UMU University of Murcia are engaged in various research porojects relating to covid-19.
Molina de Segura implements new measures to make the weekly street markets safer, including better distancing between stalls and limiting the number of shoppers at a time.
Schools:
Pupil from the IES La Flota in Murcia sent home for refusing to wear a mask.
Murcian regional Ministry of Education purchasing 10,400 electronic tablets for home tutoring: these will be distributed amongst those students who need them. A first batch of 5,400 units is being purchased for ESO, Bachillerato and FP students, and a second batch of 5,000 devices for primary school students who do not have these tools at home and need them in case of moving to non-face-to-face teaching.
6 schools are now affected by quarantines and covid positives with 19 teachers and 52 staff currently in quarantine
Thurs: One teacher of the El Garbanzal school in La Unión has tested positive, putting 15 four year old students and five other teachers into quarantine.
Previously: - The children’s primary school in Estación de Blanca has been closed due to a positive case. Staff and pupils will quarantine.
- Alhama de Murcia : Colegio concertada Azaraque. Covid has been detected in one teacher. Eight fellow teachers will also be quarantined. The teachers have been substituted, the premises disinfected and class will resume as normal tomorrow.
- Colegio público Madre Esperanza de el Siscar in Santomera. A 4 year old child has tested positive, the teacher and her 7 classmates will be quarantined. As only half of the class have attended this week, the remaining half can come in earlier and the classroom has been deep disinfected.
- Archena. Colegio José Alcolea Laca. Exactly as above, a four year old positive, same class substitution.
- 18 children and two staff quarantined at Cartagena primary school. A two year old child at the Escuela Infantil Villalba was quarantined, along with 18 fellow pupils and 2 staff after testing positive.
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