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A 44-year-old man traveled this Thursday by bus between Madrid and Vigo and, as soon as he arrived, he went directly to the emergency room of the Álvaro Cunqueiro Hospital in Vigo because he was ill. Upon admission, he tested positive for coronavirus in the PCR test and was referred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the severe symptoms he presented.

Her admission is the first in a Galician ICU in a month and, as it happened in March with the first patient admitted for coronavirus in the community, it is an imported case. The first week of March, the first positive for a coronavirus in Galicia was a 49-year-old man who traveled to A Coruña in a Blablacar shared car to conduct a job interview and, shortly after arriving, went to the Chuac Emergency Department and decreed his isolation.

In the case of this week in Vigo, the man was also hospitalized as soon as he arrived and, in principle, it is ruled out that he had contact with more people in the city, since he went directly from the bus to the hospital, but it is necessary to follow up on all passengers who traveled with him on the six-hour journey from Madrid.

In this way, the health authorities activated the protocol to track all their contacts in this collective transport. The bus company has provided the identities of all travelers and is now trying to contact them to track them and try to cut the possible chain of transmission of the virus.

The man was admitted with severe bilateral pneumonia caused by coronavirus, with the disease already advanced. This is a neighbor from Vigo who had moved to Madrid for two weeks and, after his stay, returned to his home. According to some sources, he already had symptoms in Madrid, before leaving for Galicia, with breathing difficulties.

At the moment, the quarantine has not been decreed for the rest of the passengers, since it will depend on the accredited contacts and the results of the PCR of those who present possible symptoms.

The General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health has reported that, in the last update, the number of active cases of coronavirus in Galicia is 259, of which 16 are in the Vigo health area in which this patient. He is the only patient in the community admitted to the ICU.

The Galician health area most affected by coronaviruses is Lugo, with 196 positives, most of them linked to the coronavirus outbreak detected in A Mariña , which has kept the entire region closed since Monday.

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