Thirty-seven users and nine employees of the Bom Jesus dos Mareantes home in Caminha are infected with the new coronavirus, the mayor said today.
Speaking to Lusa, Miguel Alves explained that the positive cases were known today, after the 63 users and 36 employees of the institution were tested on Friday.
“The institution has 37 positive and 26 negative users. Nine employees tested positive and 27 negative. Of all these people, only one patient has been hospitalized since Thursday, ”specified the socialist mayor.
Miguel Alves said that “the families of positive users have all been informed”, with “measures to reinforce safety and isolation conditions among users” being underway.
“Positive users are already separated from the rest. The institution’s management and employees are doing a good job, but you never know how the situation can evolve ”, he stressed.
Miguel Alves guaranteed that “the home management, the City Council and the Parish Council of Caminha are in permanent contact and collaboration to try to stop the evolution of the outbreak”.
The mayor warned that “if the month of October was bad for Caminha, with the number of cases to triple, compared to the accumulated in the previous months, when the average was five cases per day, November may be worse”.
“We have 10 new cases per day, without counting the cases of the home”, he reinforced.
Miguel Alves appealed “to comply with the measures enacted, but also to individual responsibility”.
“We know that 70% of cases in the municipality of Caminha originate from parties, family lunches or after-work gatherings. It’s time for everyone to realize that our attitude counts. For good, but also, unfortunately, for bad ”, he stressed.
Six of the 10 municipalities in the Viana do Castelo district are on the list of 121 municipalities that present a high risk of transmission of covid-19. In addition to Caminha, Viana do Castelo, Valença, Ponte de Lima, Paredes de Coura, Vila Nova de Cerveira were considered high risk municipalities.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.2 million deaths in more than 49.3 million infection cases worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,848 people died from 173,540 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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