(Updated) COVID-19: Municipality of Serpa has 11 of 17 cases of Beja district.
The Serpa county has 11 positive cases of Covid-19 and the focus is located in Vila Verde Ficalho, border town with Spain, one of the nine entry points in Portugal. There is a case which will only be valid tomorrow.
Seventeen positive cases, 91 people in active surveillance at home, 3 admitted to hospital in Beja and 65 to await results, They are the data that result from today's meeting of the Public Health bodies. The tests for users of the Vila Verde home to Ficalho, where it was detected an elderly infected, were negative. Officials await results.
UPDATE: Seconds today's data DGS, there is a fatal case in the district of Beja motivated by COVID-19, the joining 61 positive tests (report of 3 April gives DGS).
Seventeen positive cases, 16 concern three of 13 municipalities in the district of Beja, that they are in the area of ​​influence of the Intermunicipal Community of the Lower Alentejo (CIMB) and Local Health Unit of the Lower Alentejo (ULSBA) and 1 in the area of ​​Community Intermunicipal Alentejo Litoral (Cimal) and Unity of the Alentejo Litoral Local Health (ULSAL), specifically the county of Odemira.
Serpa county records 11 cases, wherein 10 They are located in Vila Verde Ficalho, with 9 to relate to a situation detected after the completion of a lunch that area, and the other is a woman, of 80 year old, wearer's Social Center St. George and Lady of Reconciliation, in Vila Verde Ficalho, that since Monday is hospitalized in the Hospital José Joaquim Fernandes, in Beja.
The institution has 36 users who have been subject to tests that were negative. As for employees to await the results, having an official, who voluntarily, auditioned, before the case detection in user at home, tested negative.
The eleventh case concerns a woman who lives in the town of Serpa and was involved in a group 45 who was in Argentina and returned to Portugal with a stop in Sao Paulo, No brazil.
In the municipality of Beja, three cases, two women and a man belonging to the said group was in Argentina, situation that was confirmed by Paul Arsenic, Mayor of Beja and head of the Municipal Civil Protection.
Almodovar presents two cases, both linked to the return from France of an emigrant 60 year old, natural Bragança and residence for more than 20 years in that village, and last day 24 March, Viewed confirmed as positive in the test Covid-19, in what was the first case in the district of Beja.
Odemira there are also confirmed a positive situation, the nationality of an Indian citizen, of 46 year old, who had arrived in Lisbon, and live in the parish of Longueira / Almograve, whose case was confirmed on 25 March, the services of the Municipal Civil Protection that municipality.
There is also a positive case in a district municipality, but that is not part of the data revealed today that should be taken during the meeting tomorrow.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
