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| Plans to reopen its doors on Monday | After the positive of an employee registered last Sunday, the City Council activated the special protocol of action, by which the employees have undergone PCRs and the total cleaning and sanitization of the property with virucides and bactericides has been carried out.The Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, together with the Councilor for Culture and Heritage Recovery, Jesús Pacheco, and the mayor of Health and Sports, Felipe Coello, supervised today the intensive cleaning and total disinfection of the Ramón Gaya museum, after detecting a COVID-19 case of a center employee last Sunday.Following the action protocol, the workers, who remain isolated, called the established telephone numbers and underwent PCR tests, despite the fact that they did not have direct contact with the infected person.To date, all employees have tested negative and, in the absence of the latest confirmations, which will take place over the next few hours, the museum is expected to reopen normally next Monday.To guarantee the safety and hygiene of the facilities, the City Council carried out a first in-depth cleaning and sanitation intervention last Monday.

Today three specialized brigades have finished the work, with a special protocol of action.

The operators are equipped with strict safety and protection measures such as overalls, gloves, glasses and masks.For the work, a bactericidal and virucidal disinfectant such as hypochlorite (5% solution) has been used with which the entire property has been thoroughly disinfected (exhibition rooms, exteriors, toilets, common areas, stairs, grilles and air conditioning filters ).Normality in San AndrésSubsequently, the mayor and councilors visited, together with the pediatric mayor, Dolores María Martínez Riquelme, the neighborhood of San Andrés, an area in which, according to the councilor, “confinement is not considered, nor in the district of Beniaján” ."They are controlled cases and there is no exponential increase, although we must continue to take all precautions and be very scrupulous with those with the recommendations of the health authorities," said Coello."The situation in our municipality, with more than 450,000 inhabitants and in which we currently do not reach even one hundred infections -we are between 70 and 80 cases-, is different from that of other municipalities with a smaller population," said the person in charge of Health and Sports, who highlighted the collaboration of the Epidemiology Service of his Department with the Murcian Health Service and the General Directorate of Public Health.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia