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In isolation at home for a week due to the contagion of the new coronavirus, the health of Miguel Borges, mayor of Sardoal, worsened, having been admitted to the Abrantes Hospital on Friday due to respiratory problems.
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The information was released this morning by the mayor himself on his Facebook page: “This virus has these things. On a day that seemed to be going well, he ended up in a bed at the Hospital Center of Médio Tejo for a stay that will be a struggle. It’s very hard, believe me, ”wrote Borges.
In contact with our newspaper, this Saturday morning, Miguel Borges said, in a written message, that he spent a week with a cough, fever, pain and respiratory problems, symptoms that worsened on Friday and led him to hospitalization for further follow-up doctor. Nearby, he is now in an infirmary at Hospital Abrantes, where he receives oxygen and medical attention.
“When it seemed that things were evolving favorably, I again had very high fevers,” said Miguel Borges, after having launched a serious appeal to the population. “We can’t make it easy, because this is very, very difficult!”
The newspaper mediotejo.net and its entire team wish prompt improvements and the restoration of the best state of health to the citizen and mayor Miguel Borges.
Married and with four children, the Social Democratic teacher is 55 years old and is part of the risk groups for some pathologies such as diabetes and hypertension.
His municipality is one of the 191 counties with a high risk of contagion by covid-19. In the universe of about 3,750 inhabitants residing in Sardoal, the latest epidemiological bulletin of the Association of Health Centers (ACES Médio Tejo) indicated this Friday a total of 35 cases of contagion since the beginning of the pandemic, with 11 people recovered, of the disease, 45 under active surveillance and “a fiscal death”.
With around 250 thousand inhabitants, the 13 municipalities of the Middle Tagus add a total of 2,478 confirmed cases of contagion by the new coronavirus, of which 2,363 in ACES Médio Tejo and 84 in ACES Pinhal Interior Sul (77 in Sertã and 7 in Vila de Rei). There are a total of 1,272 people recovered (1209 in ACES Médio Tejo, 57 in Sertã and 6 in Vila de Rei (ACES PIS) and 34 deaths.
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 3,762 deaths and 249,498 cases of infection, with 82,736 active on Friday.
Regarding hospital admissions, the DGS bulletin yesterday revealed a new maximum with the record of 3,079 hospitalized people. 481 people are in intensive care.
Miguel Borges – A very hard week with the symptoms of SARS-CoV-2
The mayor of Sardoal, Miguel Borges, accused the new positive coronavirus on November 14 and went into prophylactic home isolation, together with his wife, also with a positive test for SARS-CoV-2, the mayor revealed at the beginning Saturday, November 14 in the morning. At that time, speaking with mediotejo.net, Miguel Borges said that he went to the Abrantes hospital on Friday because he had symptoms that could be associated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and that, from the battery of tests, a positive test resulted in new coronavirus, for you and your wife, Professor Ana Borges, and whose results were known that morning.
“This touches us all, I try to comply with the regulations as much as possible but there is always that moment that we do not expect and do not know, but it does not matter now to know where they caught us, the most important thing now is to cut the contagion networks,” he said.
“As for health, I’m fine, as if I had a bit of the flu,” said the mayor of Sardoal, also president of the Santarém district Civil Protection Commission, also revealing that a test had been carried out the week before, that it had been negative. “Yesterday I had some symptoms, I had doubts if it was due to another problem that I am treating and, yes, no, I went to the hospital, I did tests and the test was positive, we found out this morning,” he said, that day, November 14.
Miguel Borges assured on the occasion that he will continue working from home and participating in meetings, teleworking, “using new technologies,” if health permits and if the symptoms do not get worse.
“I will stay at home for the next 10 days, with some medications for me and my wife, they are both positive, and we hope it will be a light pass, without consequences for the future, and that is what we believe because I am a man of faith. , and I have faith ”.
The country is in a state of emergency from November 9 to at least December 8, a period during which there is a mandatory curfew in counties with the highest risk of contagion and neighboring municipalities. The measure began covering 114 counties, a number that increased to 191 on Monday.
During the week, the curfew must be respected between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m., while on weekends circulation is limited between 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and 5:00 a.m. on Sunday and between 1:00 p.m. 00h. 00 on Sunday and 05:00 on Monday.
