Employee infected COVID-19 lodgers of a boarding school for the disabled in Magadan

Outbreak of coronavirus infection in a boarding house for the elderly and persons with disabilities due to illness of the employee stated in the comments of the Minister of labour and social policy of the Magadan region Sergey Kucherenko, courtesy of RBC.

Illness if the employee is asymptomatic, the test on her was negative. The ill residents had no symptoms, but tests showed a positive result.

“The spread of the disease among customers is caused by the fact that the establishment was built in 1972, is the corridor system, shared bathrooms, are living in rooms of three or four people and social distance is difficult to observe in full,” — said the Minister.

Cases and people exposed to them have put in infectious hospital of Magadan, said Kucherenko. “RIA Novosti” with reference to Deputy Minister of health and the demographic policy Elena Kuzmenko said that the institution had contracted 46 guests.

In a press-service of the Governor of the region told RBC that COVID-19 was found to have five members when they were at home in quarantine or observation. Guests with a positive result were admitted to hospital, contacts of people isolated. This was followed by disinfection of the premises, the entire staff was replaced.

“As a preventive measure was denied food and organized individual meals. Measures saregama. Service healthy living organized with the use of PPE: lightweight anti-plague suits, masks, goggles, Shoe covers”, — concluded the representative of the Governor.

The city Prosecutor’s office revealed in a boarding house violations of the epidemiological legislation and the legislation on protection of population and territories from emergency situations, the Ministry reported. The same violations were discovered in a psychoneurological boarding school. The prosecution made heads of institutions ideas of elimination of violations.

According to July 3, in the Magadan region identified 872 case of coronavirus infection, four cases died, 460 — recovered.