Beja: if positive “imported” Argentina of a group of 45 people.
A woman was positive in Covid-19 test, in a case that will have been "imported" from Argentina, within a group of 45 who was in Buenos Aires. It is the second case in the district.
A woman gave yesterday positive in Covid-19 test, being the first known in the city of Beja and the virus will have been "imported" from Argentina, since the woman was part of a group of 45 people who returned on Friday last that South American country where he was on a visit to an agricultural fair in Buenos Aires.
The Lidador News (LN) found with relatives, the woman took the test on Monday in Beja Hospital, lying quarantine at home, with her husband who also joined the group, having also done the test, awaiting notification contracted the virus.
The group was held for a few days in the Argentine capital, knife to the cancellation of the return flight by Iberia, after the Madrid airport has been closed to air traffic, having returned fractionated Portugal, via Sao Paulo, No brazil.
The journey to the Argentine capital, We aimed to visit the Expoagro, the most important agro-industrial exhibition in the open of that South American country, an organized trip by the Farmers Association of Baixo Alentejo (fATHER), based in Beja.
As the LN revealed exclusively last day 16, the group contacted the Embassy of Portugal in the Argentine capital, to seek help in order to achieve a solution to the repatriation.
The last 12 group elements 45 Portuguese embarked on Thursday in Buenos Aires, cerca the 15,00 hours in Portugal, a flight of the Brazilian company LATAM, to São Paulo, which then caught a connection to Lisbon.
Second case district of Beja
This is the second case in the district of Beja, after yesterday it was confirmed another case "imported", in the case of an emigrant 60 year old, natural Bragança and residence for more than 20 years in Almodovar, as positive in the test Covid-19.
The individual, civil builder in France returned to Portugal on Sunday, felt symptoms that could configure contamination and contacted Covid-19 Health line 24, having been given the indication to go to the Beja Hospital, which made in isolation in your car.
In the security order of the Hospital of Beja was provided the identity of the patient with the express indication of it not get out of the car, where it would be carried out tests leading to the confirmation or otherwise to be infected with Covid-19.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
