There is no mystery to this: resistance of the virus on the surfaces + incubation period of 34 days = bingo for the coconut !!
And don't forget that it is these same hicks of journalists who give the sanitary instructions ...
Enigma in Argentina: 57 sailors contaminated after 35 days at sea ... even though they had been tested negative at the start
Argentina seeks to solve what appears to be a riddle: 57 sailors were infected with the new coronavirus after spending 35 days at sea and the entire crew had tested negative before leaving .
The fishing vessel Etchizen Maru returned to port after some of its passengers exhibited typical symptoms of Covid-19, the health ministry of Argentina's Tierra del Fuego (south) province said on Monday, indicating that some 57 sailors, out of 61 crew members, were diagnosed positive for the virus after being retested.
Negative test and quarantine
However, the crew members had carried out 14 days of compulsory quarantine in a hotel in Ushuaia (south) and before that, they had undergone samples whose results were negative, according to a press release from the ministry.
Two of them have tested negative and two others await the result of their test, said the province's emergency operations committee. Two sailors were hospitalized, while the others were able to stay on board the boat.
"It is difficult to establish how this crew was contaminated, knowing that for 35 days, they had no contact with the mainland and that the supply was done only when leaving the port of Ushuaia", explains Alejandra Alfaro, Director of Primary Health Care in Tierra del Fuego.
"A case that escapes any description in the publications"
A team is studying "the chronology of symptoms within the crew to establish the chronology of contagions," she said. In the opinion of the head of the infectious disease department of the Ushuaia Regional Hospital, Leandro Ballatore, this is a "case which escapes description in the publications, because such a long incubation period has nowhere been described". Bin if lost: the Chinese spoke very quickly of a period up to 34 days tocard!
"We cannot yet explain how the symptoms appeared. It is something striking, but we have established five hypotheses that we must finish evaluating in order to establish what happened," insisted the infectious disease expert and member of the Provincial Emergency Operational Committee.
The crew were placed in solitary confinement on board the boat, returned to the port of Ushaia. Argentina has surpassed 100.000 cases on Sunday, and the death toll stands at 1.859. The overwhelming majority of contamination occurs in the Buenos Aires region.
We must believe that we know better how to find and read the publications here than the experts ... yet paid for them !!
