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Free masks, empty streets, random tests and promotion of social isolation: this was the strategy of the small town Cedro do Abaeté, in the heart of Minas Gerais, to become the only city without covid-19.
With almost 1,200 inhabitants, this city has completed almost nine months of a pandemic without a single confirmed record of the virus that has left more than 6 million cases in Brazil and some 170,000 deaths since February.
“There are several factors” that explain this success, says the government secretary of the Cedro do Abaeté City Council, Carlos Rodrigues Pinto.
“We don’t have public transportation, the city is quiet, there are no crowds of people. Combining these factors with the action of the Health Department and the care we give to the incessant request that the staff stay at home and keep the protocols at a distance and wash their hands, the result is explained ”, he adds.
The city has a main avenue, two other parallel streets and several alleys that cross them. The concrete block streets are deserted. In the silence, the loudspeaker that warns in the morning and in the afternoon that the covid-19 is still nearby resounds louder.
“This is important because people listen,” says Flávio Rafael, who attached a loudspeaker to a box on his bicycle to always transmit the same message to the population: “Our city is the only one in Brazil that has no confirmed case, therefore it’s up to you to keep this virus out. “
While the rest of the country lightens its restrictions more and more, and the numbers increase again, the message sent by the Cedro do Abaeté Health Secretariat through the Flávio announcer does not change: “Don’t relax!”
“I feel safe here. Now I feel unsafe to go out, so I stay at home more ”, says Meire Aparecida, a resident of the city.
Cedro do Abaeté, 266 km from the capital Belo Horizonte, was founded in 1963, in the midst of the search for diamonds in the region, says Rodrigues Pinto.
Now mainly dedicated to agriculture for local consumption, the second smallest city in Minas Gerais has a church and some small food sales.
With a population mostly over 50, Cedro do Abaeté has only one clinic, and the closest hospital is 35 km away, in Abaeté.
With a population mostly over 50 years old, Cedro do Abaeté has only one clinic, and the closest hospital is 35 km away, in Abaeté.
Before the pandemic, residents came there in search of specialized medical attention, but since the virus began to spread throughout Brazil, the Department of Health installed sanitary barriers and decided to bring specialists regularly to prevent the displacement of the population.
The distribution of masks was also considered in the action plan. “We set up a mask factory and distributed it all over the world,” says the municipality’s health secretary, Cássia dos Santos.
With no suspicious cases, health authorities conduct random tests in places like markets, as they have more people.
The Secretary of Government, Carlos Rodrigues Pinto, hopes that this city, protected by the mountains of Minas Gerais, will continue to maintain the statistics that made it headlines in the country, although it remains on alert, because “at any moment it can surprise us and have a case of -19 ”.
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