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Dili, 19 mar 2021 (Lusa) – Timorese authorities announced 23 new cases of covid-19 in East Timor in 24 hours, daily new maximum, bringing to 138 the total of active cases in the country, a spokesperson announced.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has never had so many active cases.
Rui Araújo, coordinator of the team for the prevention and mitigation of covid-19 of the Situation Room of the Integrated Center for Crisis Management (IGC), explained that 22 cases were recorded in Dili and one case in Baucau.
The new positive cases in Dili relate to only four outbreaks, including three related to Village São Miguel (Comoro), five more associated with the Neonatal Care and Emergency Obstetric Unit.
The team coordinator for covid-19 prevention and mitigation detailed that all 23 cases detected ′′ relate to a previously identified source of infection “.
′′ This means that the infection is not yet contained and that the spread continues, and also that the system is working and detecting cases “, he considered.
Six cases have also been recorded in the Maucocomate village (Becora) and one more in the Auhun Village (Becora), and there are now 30 outbreaks of cases at various points in the city of Dili.
Cases include three children, as 22 people are asymptomatic and one has mild symptoms, with the number of outbreaks in Dili growing to 30 and the total cases detected in the city since March 07 rising for 117.
Rui Araújo today left an appeal to the population that left Dili between March 05 and 09, before the deployment of the health fence, to report to the health authorities.
The person responsible further advances that in the last 24 hours four people have recovered from the disease.
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