SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, March 17. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Governing Council today gave the go-ahead to the contracts made by the emergency procedure in the Health Area of Fuerteventura, within the Arca de Noé project, for the short-stay accommodation of vulnerable people who are positive for COVID-19 or who They have been close contacts, for a total amount of 1,342,935.60 euros.
The contracts consisted of making short-term accommodation available to migrants or socially vulnerable people who had difficulties in complying with the indicated quarantine periods.
The Arca de Noé project was launched by the Canary Islands Health Service in October 2020 and is also intended for health personnel with a diagnosis, suspicion or contact of COVID-19 or with a high level of occupational exposure to contagion, with Regardless of whether they must carry out isolation or quarantine.
In this way, the spread of the virus as a result of new infections, the use of health resources without the existence of healthcare reasons that justify it, and the reduction of hospital pressure are avoided.
