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ARCHIVED - Covid outbreak amongst pilgrims from Valencia region
Pilgrims from the region's three provinces, including Alicante, infected in outbreak detected on the Camino de Santiago.
An outbreak of Covid amongst 22 pilgrims from the Valencian region has been detected on the famous Camino de Santiago pilgrimage in Galicia.
The young people, who tested positive on Saturday, July 24, had been staying in two hostels in the municipality of O Pino, A Coruña, and have since been picked up by their parents and returned to their homes where they must now self isolate.
According to the Health Department of Santiago and Barbanza, a total of 28 young people have tested positive, "with the majority having travelled from the Valencian Community".
The outbreak was detected in O Pino, the final stretch of the Camino de Santiago, with all of those infected aged between 18 and 31 years, and the Mayor of O Pino, Manuel Taboada, has assured that "the infected were monitored and controlled at all times until their parents came to pick them up in private cars to return to their community of origin".
While the hostels have been sanitised and are "cautiously returning to normal", anybody planning to visit the municipality to explore the Camino de Santiago is asked to do so "with great care" and prudence.
To try to stem a rise in infections amongst young people, the region's Ministry of Health is stepping up its immunisation campaign, starting the generalised vaccination of 20 to 29-year-olds from today, Monday, July 26, with 105,000 doses expected to be administered this week.
Meanwhile, an Alicante nursing home has closed its doors and suspended family visits over a Covid outbreak, after a member of staff tested positive at La Molineta de Petrer elderly people's residence in the Mitja Vinalopo comarca of the province.
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