The friend of the tourist who tested positive for Covid in La Graciosa complains of feeling "abandoned."

She denies that the case came to light through the tracking system, criticizes the lack of security measures during the transfer, and states that they are now confined "in a complex that is abandoned, dirty, and full of cockroaches."

August 3 2020 (23:32 WEST)
Updated in August 3 2020 (23:49 WEST)
Transfer of the tourist who tested positive in La Graciosa together with her friend
Transfer of the tourist who tested positive in La Graciosa together with her friend

"I feel abandoned." This is how the friend of the tourist who tested positive for Covid-19 in La Graciosa expresses herself, stating that the Lanzarote complex where they were placed in isolation "is abandoned, dirty, and full of spiders, ants, and cockroaches." Furthermore, she criticizes that "no one from the hospital has worried" about her health or that of her companion, both 49 years old, after their transfer to the island last Friday.

"There is only one person here to attend to those who arrive, but they are not healthcare personnel," she recounts. Although she tested negative in the PCR test, she believes that she should also be monitored. However, she assures that they were not even left a thermometer in the room.

"The only thing they told us is that they would come on the 9th to repeat the PCR test and that if it is negative, we can leave," she points out. "Today I had to request the report from the hospital of my negative PCR to prove at work that I am confined here, and the doctor who sent it to me didn't even ask how I was doing," she criticizes.

Additionally, the friend of the infected tourist assures that after 4:00 PM, there is no one to attend to them in the complex, where she points out that there are more people in quarantine. "The person who is here, who is very kind and I only have gratitude for, finishes at 3:00 PM, and she already warned us that the Ministry closes at four in the afternoon. So, from that time on, we are completely alone," she explains, adding that the food for the whole day is brought to them before that time and that she has to ration it. "We haven't gone hungry, but I don't think it's the right way either," she adds.

 

"I have a lot of discomfort"

In statements to La Voz, this woman has also denied that her case was detected by the tracking system. In fact, she has recounted that it was her friend who, after receiving a call from her roommate in Catalonia last Tuesday, informing her that he had tested positive for Covid, "immediately" contacted 112, where she also claims that they answered with "an incoherence."

"They said that we had to get the PCR test and for that, go to Lanzarote on the ferry and tell a taxi driver to take us to the hospital," this tourist assured, pointing out that "fortunately" a doctor called them later and told them not to move, and that healthcare personnel would come to take the samples.

After that, she says that her friend was given the PCR test on Wednesday, in which she tested positive, becoming the first case of Covid-19 detected in La Graciosa, and she was tested on Thursday. However, she claims that in her case, she found out the results "from the press" before from Health Services. In fact, she has stated that she did not know the result of her test until Friday, just when they were going to be transferred to Lanzarote, which she says caused her "a lot of discomfort."

 

She questions the transfer from La Graciosa

Furthermore, this woman also questions her transfer from the eighth island. Although she is now separated from her friend, they were transferred together from La Graciosa to the Lanzarote complex where they are now in isolation.

"In La Graciosa, they told us to stay separated, I stayed in a room and my companion on a sofa bed in the living room, and then on Friday they transferred us together and we only had masks and gloves. I don't know what the point was of being separated for four days if they then transferred us together. It's absurd," she points out.

According to her, her friend continues "without symptoms" although she tested positive for Covid, and she is "physically well." "But psychologically it's another story," she points out, adding that while they were treated "very well" in La Graciosa and the doctors called them "every day," she complains that this has not been the case in Lanzarote.

However, this woman states that this Monday the president of the Cabildo contacted her friend after they conveyed their situation to the institution and that she promised "to fix the issue of meals" and provide them with thermometers.

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