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In a statement, the municipality attributes the outbreak to “Risky behavior practices, associated with failures in the use of personal protective equipment and social moments strongly discouraged in this exceptional period.”.
According to the municipality, there are about two hundred active shipyards in the municipality, where dozens of subcontracting companies operate that go through various works in a few days.
Isilda Gomes, president of the mayor, highlights this fact.
“Currently there are an average of 20 new cases per day and, with rare exceptions, all are already in prophylactic isolation, since they have been identified as a risk contact through epidemiological surveys carried out continuously every day.“But not three notes.
The Municipality of Portimão says that the “anticipatory action” of the Portimão Public Health Unit, with the support of the Municipal Civil Protection, allowed “immediate isolation” of infected people, breaking the chains of contagion.
Within the framework of this operation, which was carried out in collaboration with the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) and the Portuguese Red Cross “So far, more than 2,000 rapid tests have been carried out, identifying 10 positive cases early.”.
To these are added the tests carried out by the Regional Public Health Laboratory that allowed “identify and isolate, in advance, the positive cases that today reached the figure of 125”, Placing the municipality above 240 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
“This collective effort was joined by the Working Conditions Authority and the security forces, which since March 18 have formed multidisciplinary teams that have visited the main active shipyards in Portimão, covering 60 companies.And allow 475 harvests to be made at the workplace, the municipality continues.
Massive testing
In the last week, “the sectoral test that is covering civil construction, markets, municipal services, civil protection agents, taxi drivers, bakeries, home support companies, private security, fishermen, commerce and other sectors of the community that, in the coming days, will continue to be mass tested“, He says.
The municipality clarifies that in the coming days it will continue to test and monitor the proximity of the activity in the works, as well as awareness actions “next to the establishments that are in operation”, while “the security forces will control the people in isolation ”.
According to data published this Friday by the District Civil Protection Commission of Faro, the Algarve had 499 active cases until 11:59 p.m. on April 1, with 484 patients at home and 15 admitted to hospital units in the region, six of whom were in intensive care.
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