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Dili, 23 mar 2021 (Lusa) – The number of active covid-19 cases in Timor-Leste increased to 227 today after health authorities confirmed 14 more positive cases in Dili and two in Viqueque, with the vast majority of patients still asymptomatic.
Team coordinator for the prevention and mitigation of covid-19 of the Situation Room of the Integrated Center for Crisis Management (IGC), Rui Araújo, told journalists that new cases in Dili concentrated on four outbreaks.
Most new cases have been detected in two outbreaks currently considered ′′ red zones “: nine have been identified in the village 20 September (Bebobuk), where there are currently 50 active cases, and three others in Tokobaru village 2 (Culuhun), with a total of 15 assets.
Officials also registered a new case in Kakeu-Laran village (Becora) and another in the village Mota-Klaran (Bidau).
Since March 07, the total number of cases detected has risen to 197, with 37 outbreaks of the disease.
The cases detected in the municipality of Viqueque refer to the village Umaneiku (Ossu de Cima), bringing to 10 the total number of records in the region, divided by 10 ‘ cluster s’.
Of the positive cases detected today, 12 are asymptomatic and four have mild symptoms.
In Baucau, the 19 active cases remain, divided into seven outbreaks, explained Rui Araújo. One case remains active in Lautem and the other in the municipality of Oecusse-Ambeno, as well as cases in Covalima municipality.
Globally, in the last 24 hours, the National Lab has processed nearly 690 lab tests.
Today, epidemiological surveillance teams continue on the ground to conduct contact tracing, including officials from a capital supermarket, after two of the group’s employees had positive tests on a contact screening carried out in Bebonuk neighborhood.
′′ Detection of these two cases of supermarket employees in the city is confirmed and testing is being carried out on other officials. The recommendation is that the establishment should be closed for at least a week, waiting for results from those tests “, the coordinator said.
A supermarket manager in question confirmed to Lusa that the unit has already been closed, based on the recommendation of the IGC, and explained that the two employees with positive results ′′ do not normally work in the shop itself, but in the backward support “.
Villages September 20 (Bebonuk) and Toko Baru 2 (Culuhun) stand out among the 35 outbreaks of the disease in Dili, 14 of which have not recorded any further case in the last eight days.
Rui Araújo explained that these two areas considered ′′ red ′′ have been ′′ very active in the last 72 hours “, showing ′′ major progression of the spread of virus ′′ and therefore require more attention from surveillance teams.
The 14 outbreaks are considered ′′ green ′′ level, as ′′ positive sign that the spread is contained in that area, which does not mean that around those outbreaks, in other parts of the city, the spread is contained ′′ currently.
′′ These green zones give surveillance teams a room for manoeuvre to focus more on areas with more viral spread activity “, explained.
Timor-Leste is currently experiencing its worst moment of this pandemic, with four health fences in place and three municipalities with mandatory confinement, including the capital, Dili.
Globally, the covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2.716.035 dead and more than 123 million infections.
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