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The Government of the

Principality of Asturias will

make the visits, departures and entries of new users more flexible in the nursing home network as of April 9, as planned, despite the

outbreak detected in a Langreo residence

in which eight of its 25 users, all of them vaccinated against

Covid

.

This has been the

first outbreak in a nursing home in Asturias in more than 40 days

and once the vaccination process has been completed among workers and users of the 270 centers for the elderly that are distributed throughout the community, of which 96 percent have already completed the two-dose regimen.

The origin of the outbreak detected in the

El Nadal residence

, in Langreo, is being investigated by the Principality's Epidemiology service, which is considering

different hypotheses

, according to government sources.

Of the eight positives detected in this outbreak,

only one required hospitalization

, the remaining seven have been asymptomatic and several have already made the coronavirus negative.

According to the Minister of Social Welfare and Social Rights, vaccination opens a door to hope to restore a certain normality to the lives of the people who live in these centers, which, depending on the characteristics of each one, will have different contingency plans .

After visiting the works of a new residence in Lugones, the head of Social Welfare has warned that

flexibility must also be accompanied by prudence

since vaccination is effective, but does not prevent all infections.

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