Thanks to school self-tests, they tracked down the outbreak. There are 43 positive people – Corsair

Covid erupted in the Roma community.

18. Oct 2021 at 10:45 TASR

JOVICE. Outbreak of new infection coronavirus registered in the marginalized Roma community (MRC) in the village of Jovice in the district of Rožňava.

As regional hygienist Jozef Varga said, this is a localized epidemic.

“There are a total of 68 people in quarantine for individual households where there have been positive cases,” he said, adding that the quarantine was checked by police officers.

The infection was detected by school self-tests

According to the Regional Office of Public Health (RÚVZ) in Rožňava, the first cases were caught by self-tests of primary school pupils.

Based on these results, they contacted the intervention team of the Ministry of Health (MH) of the Slovak Republic, which performed PCR testing on 99 people.

“Positivity was found in 43. Quarantine measures have been imposed and complied with,” he said.

They did not record any new cases.

“We assume that it was a kidnapping from MRK Vidová, where we recorded an epidemic week before the first occurrence in Jovice,” Varga added, adding that family ties were found among the inhabitants of these localities.

RÚVZ Rožňava does not currently record another outbreak in this district.

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The infection was detected by school self-tests

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