translated from Spanish: South Metropolitan Fire Department confirmed two first cases of Covid-19

The South Metropolitan Fire Department confirmed two first cases of Covid-19 after the appropriate examinations. He also reported that a third quarantined firefighter was now being transferred to an emergency care facility on Monday for an acute breathing box. Although coronavirus symptoms had been ruled out at first, the test result is expected. Through a statement, Firefighters referred to this case and noted “his symptomatology was sharpened, which required an urgent transfer to a care facility. Under hazmat techniques and in the institutional health vehicle, the volunteer was transferred to a hospital, making security measures for rescue firefighters and the general population”For this situation he was stirred by “temporarily closing one of our barracks, located in El Bosque, while the personnel who had contact with the affected firefighters, is in preventive quarantine in their homes”.” Members of the guards who shared with one of the positive cases and with another under suspicion, in Pedro Aguirre Cerda and La Cisterna, respectively, are also in preventive quarantines”, the communiqué explains.

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