Paphos People

From the Cyprus Mail.

Five new coronavirus cases were detected on Saturday with one being a patient at Paphos general hospital, forcing authorities to shut it down for 48 hours.

The case concerns an individual who was being treated in the Paphos general hospital intensive care unit and who had been visited by relatives from the UK.

Following the confirmation, the ministry closed the hospital to the public and placed everyone inside in quarantine.

The state health services organisation said it had decided the immediate shutdown of the hospital for 48 hours for disinfection.

Staff and patients who may have come into contact with the patient were being tested and visits were banned.

All scheduled appointments, admissions, and surgeries were cancelled pending re-evaluation of the situation in 48 hours.

Two of the other cases concern individuals who had returned from Italy and who had been in self-isolation.

The other two incidents had also been in isolation after coming into contact with an individual who had tested positive previously. They had been tracked down as part of the ministry’s contact tracing process.

This brings the total number of people found positive to 31. Five of the cases were reported in the north.

If its a visitor from abroad, wouldn't is be sensible to create a list and publish the names of the infected to ensure locals can see if they may have come into contact.

Ive even heard it mentioned that if someone came here with a fever in place they should be treated as a 'viral terrorist'.

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In the interests of patient confidentiality that wouldn't ever happen, however thankfully the authorities seem to be on top of locating those who have been in contact with the infected person(s).