According to Laureano Ferrero, father of Luis Ferrero Yero, the second patient recovered from COVID-19 in Las Tunas, he only knows of his son by a relative who lives nearby, showing that Luis is at home, complying with the isolation recommended by health professionals less than a week ago when he was discharged.
Las Tunas, Cuba.- From Arroyo Muerto, where Laureano and Celia, Luis's parents, live, there are approximately 10 kilometers to La Ceiba, their son's place of residence. Just as they explained to the Cuban News Agency (ACN) at the Management Post of the Municipal Defense Council of Majibacoa, Luis lives in the fifth house on the right-hand side.
Contacts with political, government and health authorities were not enough, because in La Ceiba there is no telephone coverage and the man is there, at his home, but nobody should visit him, the sources agreed.
The informative debt was paid by colleague Adalys Ray Haynes, president of the Union of Journalists in Las Tunas, when she published on Facebook that she had passed through Luis Ferrero's house.
He is celebrating life after defeating the COVID-19, cared by health personnel who maintain the epidemiological surveillance established by the protocol and supply the necessary medications.
"Don't come near me, even if it doesn't stick anymore," Luis jocularly told Ray Haynes, alerting her so that the affectionate impulse to be friends since childhood, school and life, the closeness of growing up as a family and being born both in 1971, would not tempt them to circumvent the established rules for recovery after suffering from the disease.
The news that put Majibacoa in suspense, above all, La Ceiba and Arroyo Muerto, was confirmed by the part of the Cuban Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) on March 30: 48-year-old Cuban citizen from Spain, who started with the symptoms just a day after arriving in Cuba, on March 24.
Of the 18 contacts of Ferrero Yero identified then, none tested positive, and his parents during those days of tension were visited a lot by the young doctor David Bonet Vázquez, in charge of Primary Health Care in that town in Majibacoa.
Luis waits for his 49 years in June and has no plans to return to Spain for now. The immediate goal is to achieve the epidemiological discharge that confirms the real-time PCR, which corresponds on April 28, and is expected to be negative, the report said.
From a photo, the slanted eyes are a sign of a smile, Luis Ferrero Yero is at home after the triumph over the COVID-19; he is surely counting the days to go to Arroyo Muerto, so we are too, waiting to speak again with Laureano, for him to tell the CAN what did he felt when he hugged his son again.
