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Dili, 13 Feb 2021 (Lusa) – Timorese health authorities announced today that a new case of covid-19 has been detected, in a Timorese citizen who irregularly entered the border, bringing to 39 the number of active cases in the country.
Coordinator-general of the covid-19 commission Odete da Silva Viegas told journalists that the new case was detected in an asymptomatic 28-year-old woman who traveled from Atambua to the Malian area.
′′ In Maliana rented a motorcycle with a driver and travelled to Batugadé, where it was searched by the Border Police Unit, which confirmed it had clandestinely entered the border. Was taken with the driver to quarantine “, added.
On Friday, she was tested, with positive result.
Meanwhile, Odete Viegas has clarified social media reports about alleged contacts between a woman, who illegally traveled from West Timor to Dili, and residents of the capital, where she was quarantined.
Surveillance team followed up contacts and testing was negative.
She also reported another case of a Timorese citizen who illegally entered the border, and was able to travel first to Dili and then to Turiscai, where she was detected by the Health Services Surveillance team.
The man was eventually taken back to Dili, where he is in quarantine. Tests you were subjected to came back negative.
In the center of Vera Cruz in Dili, there are currently 38 people in isolation, plus one more in the Oecusse-Ambeno enclave.
Since the start of the pandemic, East Timor has recorded 101 cases of covid-19, this being the highest number of active cases at once in the country.
According to law enforcement, 236 people are complying with quarantine and 79 are in selfquarentena.
The country is in a state of emergency until early March.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 2.368.493 dead in the world, resulting from more than 107,7 million infections, according to a balance sheet made by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 15.034 people of the 781.223 confirmed infections have died, according to the latest 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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