{"id":693,"date":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyl.fi\/hvest\/2021\/01\/14\/sjukrahusid_a_isafirdi_a_haettustig_vegna_covid-smits\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T14:29:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T14:29:32","slug":"sjukrahusid_a_isafirdi_a_haettustig_vegna_covid-smits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/sjukrahusid_a_isafirdi_a_haettustig_vegna_covid-smits\/","title":{"rendered":"The hospital in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur is at risk level due to Covid infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The response board of the Vestfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Health Foundation met this morning and the hospital in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has now reached a critical level.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The reason is that the patient who is currently in Landsp\u00edtala and has been reported in the news has been receiving services at the Vestfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Health Center in recent days.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Three employees at the hospital in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur are in quarantine and three more in processing quarantine. This has a significant impact on the services of the research department, the X-ray department and the surgery and accident department.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Samples have been taken and are on their way south for analysis. If the samples turn out to be negative, it should be possible to lift the danger level as soon as tonight.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It has been reported in the news that the patient was diagnosed with Covid upon admission to Landsp\u00edtala. Recently, samples had been taken from the patient at \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, which turned out to be negative.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">This decision by the organization&#039;s emergency management was taken to ensure maximum security. Patients are not in danger and all serious cases can be treated. Some of the workers have already received a previous vaccination and thus have partial protection against the virus.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&quot;This reminds us that we are not out of the wind. Disciplined quarantines are still important to ensure the health and safety of residents and employees,&quot; says Gylfi \u00d3lafsson, director of the Vestfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Health Institute.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Author: G\u00d3<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The response board of the Vestfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Health Foundation met this morning and the hospital in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has now reached a critical level. The reason is that the patient who is currently in Landsp\u00edtala and has been diagnosed <a href=\"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/sjukrahusid_a_isafirdi_a_haettustig_vegna_covid-smits\/\">More \u203a<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-af-eldri-vef","category-covid"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}