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Viseu health authorities say that the increase in cases in the municipality is “very worrying” and that the situation is in active community transmission. They ask for greater vigilance measures and ask that all events, crowds or meetings be considered. This Thursday there was another increase in the number of infected (six more). Two people remain in intensive care. The municipality has registered 190 cases since the start of the pandemic. On August 31, 150 were scored.
A number that worries the local health authorities, who speak in a “very, very serious” situation.
“We began to have very scattered cases throughout the county,” reported the source of Jornal do Centro from the county health authority that still speaks to hundreds of people in quarantine and an active community transmission, that is, the link is not can define. epidemiological. “There were cases resulting from family reunions, others that came from abroad, a case of joint hitchhiking and contacts with someone from other counties. These we can define. But there are many outbreaks whose origin is unknown, ”explained the same source.
The call is also to increase prevention and surveillance measures. “It’s not just about respiratory etiquette and hand hygiene. Each institution must reevaluate its measures and consider initiatives and events ”, she reinforced.
At the district level, in addition to Viseu, the municipality that is also a land of many concerns with the authorities is Sernancelhe where more than 400 tests have already been carried out and 63 positive people have been detected, among them the mayor and the provider of Santa Casa da Mercy. . There are more than 400 people in prophylactic isolation.
