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Inland clinics report respiratory cluster near the Cordoba border
The clinic returns are filed; the link, if there is one, is not yet established.
By V. Aldama·2 min read
Inland clinics on the Cordoba border filed reports through the week of a respiratory cluster among labourers and their families in the villages east of the estate boundary. The Chief Medical Officer's office, asked on Saturday whether the cluster was related to the Estrella de Llevant matter at berth seven, said the two were under separate review and that no epidemiological link had been established.
Dr. Laia Fontserè, in a precautionary advisory issued earlier in the week on a separate cruise-vessel matter, said the priority was "to break any possible chain of transmission before it can take hold," and described the population risk as very low. That advisory concerned the traveller now in isolation at Sant Miquel; the inland reports came in afterwards, through a different channel.
The Opposition Leader yesterday called the inland cluster a matter of urgency, and submitted a column to this paper on the question. The column has been logged and is under editorial review. The estate office, asked whether the proprietor's holdings on the affected side of the border had been visited by sanitation officers, said inquiries on operational matters should be addressed to the Sanitation Council.
This paper will report the Council's findings when they are filed. Until then the cluster is what it is: a set of clinic returns on a border, awaiting a name.
