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The National Police have found two people dead in a psychiatric residence in San Sebastián de los Reyes (Madrid) with several seriously infected by Covid-19 and without means of protection, establishing a channel of contact between the nuns who run the center to make Daily monitoring and dealing with any emergency, police sources have informed Europa Press.

The residence, as Vozpópuli has advanced, is called Cottolengo del Padre Alegre . The police intervention began this Friday at 4:00 p.m. after Civil Protection requested collaboration to access the interior of the residence managed by a religious order for serious risk by Covid-19. The same has been transferred to the Community of Madrid.

The center has 68 residents with mental illnesses and 11 of them were isolated due to clear symptoms of Covid-19, despite which no one had come to attend them beyond a telephone consultation, according to the aforementioned sources.

Of the 12 caregivers, eight are in quarantine for symptoms of Covid-19 and two have died, without the corpse of one of them having yet been removed or anyone to certify death. Of the two sisters who remain to care for the sick, one has a 38-degree fever, although they do not have any protective sanitary material .

An intern police officer entered the residence with a protection team provided by Civil Protection and, together with a member of the latter public body, carried out an inspection , both accompanied by one of the nuns.

According to the police report, the hygienic conditions in the residence are good. The intervention has been reported to the health authorities of the Community of Madrid. In addition, 900 masks were delivered , which had been operated days ago in an ice cream factory. They were also provided with a glove box and two liters of hydrogel.

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