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The Minister of Defense Margarita Robles has visited the Epidemiological Surveillance Section installed in the Army Headquarters to congratulate them on the New Year and the work of the Navy trackers in the Community of Madrid to contain the pandemic of the coronavirus.Robles who has been received by the Admiral Chief of Staff of the Navy Admiral General Teodoro Lpez Caldern has highlighted the important social work that is being carried out with the elderly and alone.Many elderly people are being detected alone some very badly and from here 112 is being called so that they can intervene and provide help she said surprised by the increase in the number of contacts with the elderly.Robles has visited the room where the 40 soldiers assigned to this unit work 12 hours a day seven days a week divided into three platoons and one reserve squad and has spoken with the trackers who have described their work as gratifying.The participation of the vast majority of the people is very positive explained the lieutenant chief of the Epidemiological Surveillance Section Francisco Jos Nez.Since the start of the operation in early September they have tracked an average of 150 cases a day with a total of almost 23500 contacts detected all those positive or negative for COVID facilitated by one case.The tracking system is one of the support activities contemplated by the Mission Baluarte operation a second operation designed and planned by the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense to reinforce actions in the face of the health crisis. The ultimate goal is to support the autonomous communities in the fight against the spread of the virus.To date 2400 members of the Armed Forces are providing tracking support to the health services of the regional governments.In addition more than 7500 military personnel from the Army Air Force and Navy are already trained and available to join the operation in the event that they are required by the evolution of the pandemic.Minister Robles recalled that the availability of the Armed Forces is full for everything that the health authorities and the autonomous communities ask of us such as disinfection tracking tests or in the last two weeks the distribution of the vaccine to Balearic Islands Canary Islands Ceuta and Melilla.Bulwark and the NavyThe Navy has activated a total of 11 Sections and an Epidemiological Surveillance Platoon in the Baluarte Mission which are deployed in the autonomous communities of Andalusia Galicia the two with the largest number of sections and trackers Murcia Madrid and Canary Islands.Currently it has 310 activated trackers and a total of 315 available.Likewise three ships LPD Galicia LPD Castilla and BAC Patio Marine Infantry units and air units have been made available to the operation with a total deployment of 1476 soldiers of which 168 are women.
