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Dili, 25 mar 2020 (Lusa) – Timor-Leste recorded in the last 24 hours 22 new cases of covid-19, asymptomatic or with mild symptoms, and 12 recovered, raising to 257 the total number of active cases in the country, a new maximum.
The data was released in online press conference by the team coordinator for the prevention and mitigation of covid-19 of the Situation Room of the Integrated Center for Crisis Management (IGC), Rui Araújo.
Araújo explained that 21 cases were detected in Dili and another new case in the municipality of Covalima, where today the health fence that was in effect at Fatumean’s administrative post was raised.
Positive cases detected in the last 24 hours include that of seven people who carried out the test because they intended to travel abroad.
′′ There were seven cases of people who intended to travel abroad and after positive PCR tests, could not travel and were channeled into isolation “, he explained, saying that they are national citizens living in areas where there are some of the outbreaks in Dili.
Rui Araújo said almost all cases are asymptomatic, with 12 with mild symptoms and two with moderate symptoms, with the National Lab processing 538 tests in the last 24 hours.
′′ Since March 07, a total of 238 cases have been detected in Dili “, said.
Since March 11th, a total of 2.129 applications for permission to exit the fence area have been made to the Integrated Center for Crisis Management (IGC), with 1.748 being processed and 491 getting permission.
The IGC revealed that globally detected since February 22, 238 cases in Dili, of which 21 in the last 24 hours, 20 in Baucau, 19 in Covalima, 10 in Viqueque and one each in Lautem and the Oecusse-Ambeno Special Administrative Region (RAEA)
In Dili there are currently 48 outbreaks of the disease with 14 without any new cases in the last eight days.
In another context and referring to the situation of the population of the island of Ataúro, north of Dili, Rui Araújo said that the same preventative measures are still being applied with sentinel surveillance screening and random tests for those travelling to the capital.
Regarding supply, Rui Araújo said that the IGC is keeping tabs on the situation and that there are currently no problems, but if additional support measures are needed, then it will be taken.
Island residents reported to Lusa that electric supply is reduced to few hours per day due to some fuel deficiency and that some shortages in goods in the island’s supermarkets and markets are shown.
Timor-Leste currently lives the worst moment of this pandemic, with 399 accumulated cases, of which 257 active at various points in the country, with three municipalities with mandatory confinement, including Dili.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2.732.899 deaths worldwide, resulting from about 123,6 million infections, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
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