Betanzos asks to keep away from ingesting water in 48 hours after detecting a brand new norovirus

The City Council of Betanzos (A Coruña) has made an enchantment to keep away from ingesting water for the following 48 hours because of the doable presence, as soon as once more, of norovirus. Thus, the issues within the water provide proceed after the restrictions on consumption within the month of June when 500 circumstances of gastroenteritis had been detected.

The concessionary firm for the water provide alerted immediately concerning the focus of norovirus within the river and within the reservoir on the head of the service, in accordance with the analyzes carried out in its laboratories. The samples had been collected on the seventeenth.

In addition to the Viaqua laboratories, the samples had been analyzed by the laboratories of the University of Santiago de Compostela, which, on this case, didn’t detect the identical parameters.

Waiting for additional evaluation

“Given this substantial distinction”, signifies the consistory, the native authorities, Augas de Galicia and Sanidade held an pressing assembly on Thursday to research the scenario, “though no restriction measure has but been decreed pending the outcomes of the samples collected immediately at eight completely different factors by the concession firm”.

“Based on these outcomes, which shall be recognized in about 48 hours, restrictive measures shall be taken or not,” the City Council advances, including that the presence of norovirus within the river was detected by Viaqua within the monitoring and management plan that it’s finishing up after the episode in June.

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