Councilor and administrator of Águas de Gondomar infected



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The general director of Águas de Gondomar, Jaime Martins, and the Councilor for the Environment of the City Council, José Fernando Moreira, are infected with covid-19 and confined, a source from the municipality reported this Thursday.

In the case of Jaime Martins, he found out that he was infected on Monday, having “promptly reported the situation to the employees who were in contact with him and advanced to the screening tests, paid for by the company, which were all negative,” he explained. to the Lusa de Águas de Gondomar fountain.

Since then, the manager has been at “home” while the “about 10 employees examined resumed work, with the company’s recommendation that they maintain preventive procedures,” the source added.

The Águas de Gondomar company, since it was declared a pandemic, “has the majority of employees in teleworking,” he said.

In the case of Câmara de Gondomar, “the councilman, asymptomatic, asked to take the test after having knowledge of the positive result” by Jaime Martins, with whom he meets frequently in the scope of his functions, since he occupies the areas of Environment and spaces. green, Markets and promotional fairs, Animal protection / Forests and natural resources, reported the communication office of the local authority.

“Once the positive test result was known, the councilman was confined to his home,” he said.

The councilor’s direct collaborators received the results of the covid-19 test in the late afternoon, “all of which were negative,” but “will comply with the two-week quarantine,” added the source, saying that the ” less contact is still waiting for your results. “

The autarky also reported that the president of the Union of Parroquias de Melres e Medas, José Paiva, also tested positive for covid-19, admitting that he could have been infected “in the meeting with the councilor and the administrator of Águas de Gondomar.” .

Portugal accounts for at least 1,852 deaths associated with covid-19 in 62,126 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health (DGS).



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