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Dili, 11 Feb 2021 (Lusa) – Timorese health authorities announced 14 new cases of covid-19 today, all of those who were quarantined, saying that five others in isolation have already had recovered.
General coordinator of the covid-19 commission Odete da Silva Viegas said in a press conference that the 14 new cases raised the total number of people in isolation in the country to 38 people. The biggest number ever at the same time.
Explained, 13 of the new infected, among them two foreign citizens and a healthcare professional, are part of a group of 118 people that entered the land border on January 20
More than 30 positive cases have been detected from this group.
′′ All citizens were quarantined. Thirteen in Dili and another in Batugadé, where he entered January 24 “, stressed.
′′ Many of those who entered January 20th had no valid covid-19 testing “, he sustained.
Many of the elements of that group have had to wait several weeks in West Timor, one of the areas where covid-19 cases are increasing, because East-Timorese borders were closed.
Questioned by Lusa as to whether it was necessary to review the strategy – which prevents Timorese from entering their country for several weeks, increasing their risk of contagion – Odete Viegas recalled that the rules were adopted in the Council of Ministers.
′′ But it’s a subject being studied by the Situation Room “, he stressed.
As for citizens who were in isolation, the authorities confirmed five more recovered today, three women and one Timorese man and another foreign individual.
This implies that there are currently 37 people in isolation in Vera Cruz, Dili – among them 12 foreign citizens – and one in the enclave of Oecusse-Ambeno.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, there have been 100 positive cases in East Timor.
The country is in a state of emergency until early March – this is the tenth period of 30 days since the beginning of the pandemic – with the biggest concerns currently centering around the land border area, given the high number of cases on the indonesian side of the island.
The Government’s prediction is that the vaccination program starts April 07, World Health Day.
ASP // JMC
Lusa / End
