According to the Shaanxi Provincial Health Commission, on Friday two Chinese, one 47 and the other 55, tested positive for the new coronavirus, which causes covid-19, upon arriving in the provincial capital, Xi ‘. an.
One of the men came from Angola and the other from Cape Verde, both of whom passed through Lisbon, where they took a Beijing Capital Airlines flight to Xi’an.
On Sunday, the Commission revealed another case of covid-19, this time asymptomatic, detected during the isolation period of a 40-year-old man. The Chinese left Bolivia and passed through São Paulo and Lisbon before landing in Xi’an on 4 October, having made a negative test on arrival.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 40.4 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the hardest hit in the world, when counting the second number of deaths (more than 5.2 million cases and 154,176 deaths), after the United States. Angola records 248 deaths and 7,829 cases, followed by Cape Verde (87 deaths and 7,800 cases).
In Portugal, 2,213 people died from 103,736 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.
Bolivia registers 8,502 deaths and 139,890 cases, the Bolivian Ministry of Health announced on Monday.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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