Moura: Municipal Emergency Plan Activated
Municipal Civil Protection Commission of Moura activated the Municipal Emergency Plan in view of the increased risk of spreading the pandemic.
The imminence of the increase in the number of infected with COVID-6, after the second case in the county is known, emergency meeting, the Municipal Civil Protection Commission (CMPC) activated the Municipal Emergency Plan, justifying that it is “due to family relationships and difficulty in containment, could represent an increased risk of spreading the pandemic ”, justifies CMPC.
Without mentioning it in the communiqué where it acknowledges the activation of the Plan, that the risk of an increase in those infected is “due to family relationships and difficulty in containment”, is talking about the fact that the first infected person is a Roma individual who lives in a place where at the beginning of the week there were more than six dozen people.
In the document, the CMPC also justifies that the activation of this instrument to guide the pandemic is also due to the “high number of elderly people in institutions, in an increased vulnerable situation, could become a serious problem ”, maintaining that everything will be made in close articulation and municipal and district structures.
The Municipal Civil Protection Service (SMPCM) announced second positive case.
According to the SMPCM, coordinated by Álvaro Azedo, mayor, “This second patient is related to the first confirmed case” and was made public last Tuesday and is in the intensive care unit of José Joaquim Fernandes Hospital, in Beja.
Has learned the Lidador News (LN), this is a woman undergoing hemodialysis in the service of the hospital unit in bejense and who was transported together with the first infected plus three other people, in a vehicle of the Moura Volunteer Firefighters. A firefighter, a woman and a man are in quarantine awaiting the results of the tests. The lady's husband who today tested positive also has already been tested.
The Municipality reveals that “it is monitoring the tests that have been carried out in the municipality” (photo of the Câmara de Ourique vehicle that cooperates in carrying out tests) adding that in conjunction with the health authorities "he is taking all steps to control the spread of the virus", justify.
The first case was detected on Saturday after the group returned to Moura after undergoing treatment at the Hemodialysis Service of Hospital de Beja. The man felt bad, went to the Health Center, having been transported to Beja, under suspicion of having contracted the coronavirus, what came to be confirmed.
JN found that with this 33 positive cases in the district of Beja, distributed by counties, this way: Serpa-17, Beja-6, Odemira, Almodôvar and Moura-2 cases each and Castro Verde, Cuba, Mértola and Ferreira do Alentejo-1 house in each. Still without known cases are the municipalities of Alvito, Aljustrel, Canyons, Ourique and Vidigueira.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
