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The municipality of Alcoutim registered, this Saturday, September 5, the first positive case of Covid-19. It is about a woman, resident in Martim Longo and “about 40 years old.”
TO South InformationOsvaldo Gonçalves, mayor of Alcoutim, explained that it is “a case imported from the municipality of Olhão.”
At the moment, there are already nine people in prophylactic isolation, “among relatives and co-workers” of the infected woman, “who will be tested in two or three days,” revealed the mayor.
Since the start of the pandemic, Alcoutim had escaped Covid-19 unscathed. It was the only municipality in the Algarve that had not yet registered a positive case. The scene has changed today, but Osvaldo Gonçalves explained that this was “an inevitability”.
“We always knew it was a situation that could change at any moment,” he said.
Now, the mayor calls for the “calm” of all, as well as the reinforcement “of compliance with all the measures recommended by the General Directorate of Health.”
in one Send on Facebook where he revealed this first positive case in you municipality, Osvaldo Gonçalves explained that “maintaining trust in the authorities and a collaborative spirit are important recipes for collaborating with the success of what is intended to minimize the impact of pollution as much as possible.”
Today, according to the latest DGS data, the Algarve has 9 more confirmed cases of Covid-19. The total number accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic is 1,159.
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