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The first day of evaluation between teachers and non-teachers in county schools detects an incidence rate below 1%. Nine positive cases in 914 tests.
The rapid antigen reading tests this Saturday stopped nine positive cases in the 914 diagnoses made among teachers and auxiliary personnel of the school community of Matosinhos.
Articulated between the City Council and the Red Cross, the screening continues until Monday, to assess the incidence of contagion between teaching and non-teaching staff upon their return to the second period of classes, after two weeks of vacation.
Among all the municipal schools, public and private, from basic education to higher education, the Chamber estimated between 3,500 and 4,000 the number of teachers and assistants to convene the screening of covid-19, voluntarily and free of charge.
The Portuguese Red Cross made available, precisely, four thousand tests and mobilized technicians for the six diagnostic points distributed throughout the municipality. In one of them, in the Matosinhos Youth House, the entire operation was coordinated. In the balance of the first day of screening, 914 tests and nine positive cases were carried out, which were immediately quarantined.
“We are talking about an incidence of less than 1%. The results are within the normal values of the municipality,” says the national emergency coordinator of the Red Cross, Gonçalo Órfão.
“These rapid tests are aimed at minimizing the impact on schools of infections contracted during the Christmas holidays. By acting in schools, we are protecting thousands of families, ”says Mayor Luísa Salgueiro.
“Matosinhos – observes the mayor – has shown a very significant slowdown in the incidence of cases per 100,000 inhabitants and we are, according to the latest DGS bulletin, very close to being included in the list of municipalities with moderate risk. The decrease in the number of infected – we have the lowest incidence in the Porto area, was the result of the work we developed as a community and depended, to a large extent, on the individual responsibility of the people of Matosinhenses ”.
Open until Monday, the screening on Saturday had 75% of registered professionals. Registration is still open, through a link distributed by the school group management.
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