A City of Brownsville employee working out of City Plaza on Levee Street has been tested and found positive for COVID-19.
The third death in the RGV was confirmed in Hidalgo County and involved a 76-year-old Alamo man with underlying medical conditions.
The Brownsville case has led to the city investigating his contact history and the ordering of a thorough sanitizing of the building. It is unknown how the employee came into contact with the virus, officials say.
This, in part, led the city commission Tuesday to unanimously vote to approve the Second Amended Declaration of Local State Disaster for Public Health Emergency which includes the mandatory use of facial covering when in public effective next Monday, April 13.
However, the commission recommends the community to wear face coverage when in public effective immediately, based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
Meanwhile, Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño issued an emergency management order aimed nursing homes and “other long-term care facilities.”
Officials are trying to determine the identify of the health care worker who carried the COVID-19 virus from the Veranda Healthcare & Rehabilitation to Windsor Atrium, Health Administrator Esmeralda Guajardo said.
“That seems to be the exposure at Windsor,” Guajardo said. “We’re still investigating to try to determine. There seems to be something going on across nursing homes. They share staff.”
Officials are trying to determine the identify of the health care worker who carried the COVID-19 virus from the Veranda Healthcare & Rehabilitation to Windsor Atrium, Health Administrator Esmeralda Guajardo said.
“That seems to be the exposure at Windsor,” Guajardo said. “We’re still investigating to try to determine. There seems to be something going on across nursing homes. They share staff.”
Two people - a resident and a health worker - associated with Veranda have died. The worker was in his 60s and the patient was 81. The worker was from Willacy County and the County and the resident was from Harlingen in Cameron County.
On Monday night, county health officials reported 14 new cases, including five connected to Windsor Atrium. On Tuesday the county reported an increase of seven additional cases with two of them from Windsor Atrium.
On Monday night, county health officials reported 14 new cases, including five connected to Windsor Atrium. On Tuesday the county reported an increase of seven additional cases with two of them from Windsor Atrium.
So far, there have been 248 positive cases reported in the RGV: 128 have been in Hidalgo, 108 in Cameron, five in Willacy and seven in Starr. The breakdown in the new Cameron County cases is as follows:
5 comments:
IDIOTAS where are we going to buy the face masks pendejos? Bunch of ignorant self-serving gueyes...
Walmart is not letting anybody in without a face mask and are saying its the law and the city just passed it. pendejos
What they need to do now is notify the neighbor where the virus may be "sheltered-down" without anyone knowing the danger is near their homes. Mark their doors like they marked the doors of the first born during Moses time.
Label the virus carriers so we can stay away from them.
The city does not know what is doing handling these matters. If you recalled, the city had an employee who possibly was exposed to the virus last month at the library. They sent home quite a few employees to quarantine themselves at home, thankfully the results were negative. Now that there is a confirmed positive Corona virus case at city plaza, they decided to close for one day for deep cleaning and instructed their employees who regularly work there to keep working in the field, even though they knew that these employees were in and out of city plaza. These employees are interacting with the public, it seems that the city is not practicing what it recommends when it comes to self-quarantine. Clearly, they don't care about their employee's health and welfare and those of their families. Very shameful.
They closed all the cantinas because they thought it was coming from the corona beer pinches pendejos...
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