The sample taken yesterday afternoon from the woman who is under monitoring in Alicante for having been a passenger on the plane in which a person died from Hantavirus is already at the National Center for Microbiology. This Saturday, the Ministry of Health of the Generalitat Valenciana reported that it sent the sample of the person who is hospitalized last night.
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The same sources explain that the shipment was registered at the National Center for Microbiology at 3 a.m. and it is expected that the PCR results for Hantavirus will be available between 24 and 48 hours later.
The patient, 32 years old, is under monitoring for having been a passenger on the plane from which a person who later died was evacuated and after having traveled on the MV Hondius cruise ship.
According to the protocol established by the Ministry of Health, if the PCR is negative, it is repeated 24 hours after confirming the sample result. If the second PCR is also negative, the patient would be considered a contact in quarantine and would be transferred to the Central Defense Hospital Gómez Ulla in Madrid.
On the contrary, if the PCR is positive, the woman would be evacuated to the High-Level Isolation and Treatment Unit of the La Fe Hospital in Valencia.
If positive, she would be evacuated to the High-Level Isolation and Treatment Unit of the La Fe Hospital in Valencia
The patient was admitted yesterday to a hospital in the province of Alicante and is in a negative pressure isolation room. The woman presents mild respiratory symptoms, mainly related to cough.
From the General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health, contact was made with the woman yesterday after receiving an alert through the European Alert System and in coordination with the Ministry of Health.
Upon receiving an alert, the woman was transferred from her home to a hospital in Alicante in an ambulance
Subsequently, the woman was transferred from her home to a hospital in Alicante in an ambulance equipped with the safety elements established for these cases. Once at the hospital, she was taken to the corresponding room maintaining her isolation in a negative pressure capsule and conducted through a safe and separate circuit from the rest of the patients and professionals, thus guaranteeing safety at all times.
From the first moment, the Ministry of Health mobilized the necessary resources to safeguard the safety and epidemiological surveillance of both the population and healthcare professionals. Likewise, updates on the progress of the patient’s monitoring will continue to be provided.
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