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The Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo (IPVC) registers 14 cases of contagion by the new coronavirus, among teachers and teachers, all recovering at home, the president of the higher education institution said today.
Speaking to the Lusa agency, Carlos Rodrigues said, “so far, there have been no cases of infection by SARS-CoV-2, the covid-19 disease virus, among IPVC employees.”
According to the official, according to “the traceability that the health authorities were able to do, the infection will not have occurred in a school environment.”
Carlos Rodrigues said that “the 14 infected people, mostly students, from various regions of the Viana do Castelo district and other regions of the country, are recovering at home, without reports of more serious situations of the disease.”
The president of the IPVC said that the students “are being accompanied, daily, by the course coordinators.
“We monitor very closely so that students are not impaired in their teaching,” he said.
Carlos Rodrigues said that “the registration of covid-19 cases has been carried out systematically since last week”, and revealed that “next Tuesday the IPVC will provide an updated bulletin of the cases of the disease to inform in a transparent and rigorous evolution of the disease “.
The data will be published, “once a week, on the covid-19 page, created in March on the official website of the institution,” and “internally, the data will be sent to schools twice a week.”
According to Carlos Rodrigues, the IPVC contingency plan includes two departments, one located in the city of Viana do Castelo and the other in Ponte de Lima, to house students or teachers who cannot return home.
With about five thousand students, the IPVC has six schools -Education, Technology and Management, Agrarian, Nursing, Business Sciences, Sports and Recreation-, which offer 28 undergraduate degrees, 40 master’s degrees, 34 Higher Professional Technicians Courses (CTESP ) and others. Professional training.
In addition to the higher schools of health, education and technology and management, located in Viana do Castelo, the IPVC has higher schools installed in Ponte de Lima (Agrária), Valença (Business Sciences) and Melgaço (Sports and Leisure).
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 1.2 million deaths in more than 48.7 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,792 people died from 166,900 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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