Police Officer With Coronavirus Shows No Symptoms

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"It is worrisome, because I have tested positive but I have not had any symptoms." This is how Fran Godoy, who is one of the four Local Police officers who have tested positive for coronavirus and relates how he fought for 14 days to be tested.

Godoy had been on leave for more than two weeks, and had to return to work this Saturday, as did a colleague of his who has also tested positive . "My partner was bad, he had been in Madrid and he did have symptoms," said the policeman

As he explained, his colleague travelled to Madrid before the state of alarm was declared and after learning on March 13th that people with whom he had been in the capital "had tested positive," he called the phone number of the Government of the Canary Islands. "He was calling all the morning, because they didn't pick up the phone, and finally he explained the situation to them, that he was already well, that the fever had passed, and they put him in quarantine, but they didn't do any tests," he explained.

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After that, Fran Godoy confirmed that this policeman contacted him since, although they were both "free," they had been together the previous day. "I was starting to have runny nose and I had to go back on the 14th," said this policeman, who then also telephoned, although directly at 112. However, he says that after speaking with a doctor, they told him they put her in quarantine "for prevention" but, since she had no symptoms, she was not going to be tested either.

"I insisted that it be done, and no response. I even talked to my GP, who was also fighting to have the test done and they still said no, if I did not have symptoms, they did not do it," he added. Thus, Fran Godoy remained in isolation at home but, having to return to work on April 4th with his partner, he insisted again that they do the test "for safety".

"The truth is that both my boss, José Antonio Lasso, and the councilor, Alfredo Mendoza, have always been very concerned," said this policeman, who stressed that the mayor "moved heaven and earth" to have the test, finally getting them to do the tests.

"First they did it to another colleague, who went to the emergency room and tested positive and in the end it was possible to have all of them tested, and my colleague and I were included in the first package of tests," said Fran Godoy, who Although he thought he was going to give a negative after two weeks had passed, he also tested positive, as did the other colleague who was also on leave.

"You have to be careful, because you can be good and still have the virus," said Godoy, who believes that "if the protocol is that, if you don't have symptoms, they don't test you, is a bit absurd." " And it seems to me a very big mistake that the medics in charge are making, concluded this local police officer from Arrecife.

Total Cases on The Canary Islands: 20:00 03/04/20

Confirmed: 1564

Deaths: 78

Recoveries: 123

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