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Dili, 09 Feb 2021 (Lusa) – The Timorese Ministry of Health announced six new positive cases of covid-19 today, all Indonesian citizens, among them a person who entered illegally, reported by the family and delivered to the authorities to be quarantined.
Deputy coordinator of the covid-19 prevention and mitigation task force Odete da Silva Viegas explained that five of the new cases are from the same family, one of which is an employee at the Indonesian Embassy in Dili.
The family, with diplomatic service passport, entered East Timor at the land border at the end of January and was in quarantine.
The sixth case is of a 34-year-old woman illegally entered the border, having managed to travel by motorcycle to Dili where on arrival she was reported to the authorities by the family and taken to quarantine in Tibar.
′′ The case was reported by her own family as soon as she arrived in Dili last day 28. It was immediately taken to quarantine in Tibar and analysis of contacts and investigation into the case is ongoing “, he said.
All six new cases, aged 71, are asymptomatic, having been transferred to isolation in Vera Cruz, Dili, where 28 people are now, adding a 29. th in isolation at the enclave of Oecusse Ambeno.
Of the total of 28 people in Vera Cruz, 13 are foreigners and the rest are Timorese.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, East Timor has recorded 86 cases of covid-19, the vast majority imported and asymptomatic, without any serious cases.
Currently, there are still 288 people in quarantine and 123 in self-quarantining, with 115 still waiting to know the test result carried out.
ASP // JMC
Lusa / FIm
