Special to El Rrun-Rrun
The Tamaulipas State Health Department (Secretaría de Salud de Tamaulipas [SST]) this Sunday confirmed that the third confirmed case of COVID-19 involves a 21-year-old woman who arrived from Spain March 12, the same date that a reported 22-person group that visited Ireland and Spain and which included the 21-year old man from Rancho Viejo who also tested positive arrived here.
The Matamoros woman is said to have been part of the group. So far, four people associated with that group have been diagnosed with the virus and have been placed in home quarantine by the Cameron County Health Dept.
She is the fourth case of coronavirus case reported in Tamaulipas.
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A memo written by the Matamoros FINSA industrial firm owned by Sergio Arguello identified his son as having been confirmed as being one of the individuals who contracted the disease while abroad.
He was reported to have been in a group of 22 that was on a 20-day European trip that included Spain and Ireland. Other members of the group included the son of local attorney Ricardo Adobbati, who reportedly picked him up at the Harlingen Regional Airport on their return and then drove him to South Padre Island during Spring Break.
Adobbati refuted the report on his Facebook page and said it wasn't him but another of his sons who picked up his brother and both went to the island.
And other commenters say that some of those who were in the 22-person group that included the younger Arguelles and Adobbati have placed themselves in self-quarantine on SPI and had not reported to the health authorities after they suspected they had been exposed to COVID-19.
Some commenters say that one of the group was Bernardo De La Garza son of owner of ZIWA Construction and was the one tested positive in Rancho Viejo.
And despite the protests of some readers that just because the majority of the 22-person group and their partners were ex-ST. Joseph Academy graduates the school should not be derided for that fact, there's no denying of the association.
The comengters say the younger Arguelles flew from Vail, Colorado straight to the clinic in Monterrey and was not in SPI. El Rrun-Rrun has requested the report from the Cameron County Health Dept. to confirm the identities of those involved and where they are now.
Said one: A Harlingen general surgeon who is friends with the father of the infected patient and was told that after they came back from Europe they stopped in Houston and also went to college station and went out to bars. After they came to The Valley and supposedly went to quarantine to SPI with 8 other friends. He probably infected the parents, which then infected the surgeon which is now roaming around the hospitals in Harlingen and is infecting everybody he comes in contact with.
Another said: Some got tested in Matamoros. Google Matamoros news That girl belongs to the same group of kids!
Uncertainty has made things all the worse and questions have arisen on the responsibility - or irresponsibility - of the travelers and their parents in the handling of the potential contagion. Until this is cleared up, this uncertainty will continue to trouble nd divide this community.
The three cases related to the 21-year-old from Rancho Viejo include a 20 year-old man from Brownsville, a 21 year-old man from Rancho Viejo, and a 20 year-old woman from Brownsville. All four traveled out of the United States.
A memo written by the Matamoros FINSA industrial firm owned by Sergio Arguello identified his son as having been confirmed as being one of the individuals who contracted the disease while abroad.He was reported to have been in a group of 22 that was on a 20-day European trip that included Spain and Ireland. Other members of the group included the son of local attorney Ricardo Adobbati, who reportedly picked him up at the Harlingen Regional Airport on their return and then drove him to South Padre Island during Spring Break.
Adobbati refuted the report on his Facebook page and said it wasn't him but another of his sons who picked up his brother and both went to the island.
And other commenters say that some of those who were in the 22-person group that included the younger Arguelles and Adobbati have placed themselves in self-quarantine on SPI and had not reported to the health authorities after they suspected they had been exposed to COVID-19.
Some commenters say that one of the group was Bernardo De La Garza son of owner of ZIWA Construction and was the one tested positive in Rancho Viejo.
And despite the protests of some readers that just because the majority of the 22-person group and their partners were ex-ST. Joseph Academy graduates the school should not be derided for that fact, there's no denying of the association.
The comengters say the younger Arguelles flew from Vail, Colorado straight to the clinic in Monterrey and was not in SPI. El Rrun-Rrun has requested the report from the Cameron County Health Dept. to confirm the identities of those involved and where they are now.
Said one: A Harlingen general surgeon who is friends with the father of the infected patient and was told that after they came back from Europe they stopped in Houston and also went to college station and went out to bars. After they came to The Valley and supposedly went to quarantine to SPI with 8 other friends. He probably infected the parents, which then infected the surgeon which is now roaming around the hospitals in Harlingen and is infecting everybody he comes in contact with.
Another said: Some got tested in Matamoros. Google Matamoros news That girl belongs to the same group of kids!
Uncertainty has made things all the worse and questions have arisen on the responsibility - or irresponsibility - of the travelers and their parents in the handling of the potential contagion. Until this is cleared up, this uncertainty will continue to trouble nd divide this community.