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The General Directorate of Health (DGS) issued this Tuesday, at the end of the afternoon, a clarification note on social networks to deny the information of an oracle of the SIC, which says that “the DGS asks to close the car windows in the A28 “, alluding to the road that connects the municipalities of Vila do Conde, Póvoa de Varzim and Matosinhos, recently affected by the legionella outbreak.
“This statement was never made by Dr. Graça Freitas,” says DGS on social networks. The content of the phrase, widely shared, is a suggestion of a researcher at the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, Teresa Leão, who was also heard in the same report, but erroneously attributed to DGS.
In the SIC move, which has since been rectified, there are no longer statements made on Monday by Graças Freitas on the subject, where the Director General of Health only mentioned that most of the cases belonged to the same focus and that Legionella did not it was a disease. contagious. The statements of the specialist public about the closing of the A28 windows were also withdrawn.
The JN of this Tuesday reveals that the only common trait found is that those infected either live in the area where more cases have occurred (between the south of Vila do Conde and the north of Matosinhos), or, in the days prior to the illness. , traveled on the A28 towards Porto.
“DGS has oriented its action to combat fake news, so it requests that this information not be disseminated,” concludes the clarification.
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