Health reports 9 positives for coronavirus among Moroccan menas sheltered in Ceuta

The Institute of Health Management (Ingesa), an entity dependent on the Ministry of Health that manages public health services in the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla, has reported a total of nine positives for coronavirus among unaccompanied foreign minors (menas) sheltered In Ceuta. Among the 780 tests carried out on mena who arrived on Spanish soil irregularly from Morocco, infections have been detected in three boys under 15 years old and another six positive among young people between 15 and 18 years old. Illegal immigrants to Ceuta have triggered the cases detected in the autonomous city, multiplying the daily infections by 200. One of the men, admitted by Covid One of the registered infected has needed hospital admission and is in isolation for emergency observation at the Hospital University of the autonomous city, while the rest remain in isolation in one of the prefabricated modules of the hostel provisional eu of Piniers, where a total of 250 young people have been transferred from the Tarajal industrial estates, the rest, around 600, continue in a converted warehouse while the City Government seizes other located in the same area to enable them as emergency accommodation and the General Command of Ceuta installs a camp with military tents in the vicinity of the Center for the Temporary Stay of Immigrants (CETI), specifically in the parking lot of the attached Equestrian Center. The Government Delegation estimates that some 2,000 Moroccan minors They entered Ceuta irregularly between Monday and Wednesday, although it is estimated that several hundred still roam the streets of the Spanish town.Some have already returned to their country together with the relatives who accompanied them in the incursion, while for the unaccompanied who are being claimed by their families, an attempt is being made to articulate an accelerated regrouping protocol between Spain and Morocco. profile between 16 and 18 years old whose return is not requested by their family, should be left under the responsibility of the local administration The Ministry of Social Rights has asked the rest of the autonomous communities to take charge of the 200 foreign minors alone that the City already protected Autonomous in order to free up the Temporary Relocation Center of ‘La Esperanza’ and expand the available reception facilities available in Ceuta.