The Councilor for Security of Santa Cruz, Evelyn Alonso, is close contact of a municipal technician who has tested positive for COVID, which is why the PSOE has questioned his presence in the plenary session that is being held at the moment, as well as in the lighting of the Christmas lights that occurred last night in the Plaza del Principe. The councilor explained in plenary session that, after learning from the City Council’s Occupational Risks service of her condition of direct contact, both a PCR test and an antigen test were carried out, both negative. Tests that he repeated on a second occasion, also giving negative. She defended that, among the recommendations of the Occupational Hazards service, she was given the option of continuing with her work, without the need to confine herself, since she is vaccinated with the full schedule, and provided that she wears a FFP2 mask.
The PSOE recriminated not only his presence in the Plenary, when the rule that establishes Public Health is a home isolation for ten days, but also that he had skipped the part in which the Occupational Hazards service recommends that he not attend events multitudinous, when attending the lighting of lights. The PSOE pointed out that other people considered close contact are working from their homes.
The councilor insisted that she has followed the recommendations of the municipal service, although she did not clarify whether the Canary Islands Health Service has contacted her as a close contact with the person who tested positive for COVID.
From Occupational Risks, the councilor was recommended to contact her family doctor, and, although it effectively gives the councilor the option to continue with her work taking the measures already mentioned, it also indicates that sick leave is recommended in general, as well as avoiding large events. The same service recommends that, in general terms, you should extreme contact with anyone without a mask, less than 2 meters and more than 15 minutes, recognizing that you should not be confined unless you develop compatible symptoms.
It is recommended to avoid contact with vulnerable people. Likewise, you should wear a mask in your social interactions, not attend mass events and monitor the possible appearance of compatible symptoms; If these appear, you must communicate them immediately because you will be considered a suspicious case and you must confine them in any way.
