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Players of soccer teams in the region, faithful of religious groups and foreign citizens, including migrants, residents and visitors, are raising the numbers of Covid-19, in the Algarve, revealed Ana Cristina Guerreiro, regional health delegate, at a conference of fortnightly press to assess the epidemiological situation in the Algarve region.
According to data from the Regional Health Authority, there are 82 new cases of Covid-19 in the region, which has increased the accumulated total since the start of the pandemic to 3803.
In hospitals, there are already 49 people infected by the new coronavirus admitted, 9 of which are in intensive care, an increase of one person, in both cases.
People who have recovered from the disease have also increased to 2,519. Active cases have increased to 1,245.
As for deaths, there is nothing more to regret, keeping the accumulated total at 39.
At this time, Ana Cristina Guerreiro revealed, “the situation that is giving us the most work and that worries us the most is that which exists in football clubs, especially in the U-23 teams.
In total, there are 31 infected players from four clubs, “mostly players from Internacional de Almancil”, which will be the origin of the outbreak, but also from São Luís (Faro), Marítimo Olhanense and Fuzeta.
“The problem is that some of these young people, in addition to being connected to clubs, are friends abroad. It is this relationship between them that has taken the cases of Almancil International to other clubs, ”revealed the regional delegate for Health.
The numbers also inflate the cases registered among foreigners. And, in this case, there are counties that entered the list of municipalities at risk with a high percentage of new cases of citizens of other countries.
The most striking case is that of Vila do Bispo, where “we estimate that the percentage of foreign cases is around 70%.”
But the percentage of non-nationals in the number of infected in Portimão and Albufeira is also significant, around 30%.
«We have recently had some cases at Camping Park in Alvor, with 13 people related to this outbreak, most of them foreigners. But they can be more », revealed Ana Cristina Guerreiro.
Furthermore, “there are foreigners and foreigners. We have migrants who work in greenhouses and in agriculture, among whom some cases arise, but also those who enjoy the country and who come with motorhomes, stay in campsites or go to shelters.
All these cases “count where they are, which is where they breathe.” However, they are people who are not registered in the region, so they do not contribute to the accounting of the total population of the municipalities and the region, one of the variables of the criterion used by the Government to decide which municipalities are at risk .
For António Pina, president of AMAL, “this reveals something that we have been saying for a long time: the Algarve cannot be seen only by the resident population, but also by the floating population”.
«Many more people live here, who are not in the statistics and are not registered, something that will not happen anywhere else, in the country, with this dimension. We must have at least 600 thousand inhabitants ”, defended the president of the District Civil Protection Commission.
“We are going to present a proposal to the Government and the DGS to introduce a new criterion, to introduce another number in the weighting of cases in the Algarve. Foreigners can not only be counted for cases, they must also be counted as a population, ”António Pina announced.
As for the cases related to religious denominations, the most worrying are in Portimão / Lagoa and Faro / Olhão.
«There is an outbreak with many people related to the Rocha Eterna religion in Portimão. There are already 16 cases, in Portimão and Lagoa, but there will probably be more », revealed Ana Cristina Guerreiro.
Another outbreak, this one with “18 associated cases, is related to the Philadelphia Evangelical Church, with cases in Faro and Olhão.”
In both cases, the infections will be related to the practice of worship “in closed spaces, with people, eventually, very close to each other and singing,” concluded the regional health delegate.
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