GNR opens investigation to investigate outbreak in Porto that has already infected 31 soldiers

GNR opened an investigation to investigate the circumstances in which two holiday lunches were held with military personnel from the Porto Territorial Command, which may have led to an outbreak that has already infected more than 30 elements.

, reveals the GNR in a statement that, as of Thursday, 31 soldiers (already at home) had tested positive for the new coronavirus and another 17 were in isolation awaiting the result of the test.

The GNR clarifies that it opened an internal process to investigate the circumstances in which these initiatives occurred, but guarantees that the situation “did not result in any limitation to the fulfillment of the mission” of the Republican National Guard, since the number of soldiers in that unit is 1,625 military.

“The facilities in question were disinfected by the Emergency, Protection and Relief Unit (UEPS),” he adds.

GNR says that it still maintains as a priority “the prevention of the disease, the containment of the pandemic and the guarantee of the security of all the military of the Guard and of the citizens.”

“In addition to ensuring the distribution of personal protective equipment to the military of the entire device, a contingency plan is implemented, to which complementary measures are frequently added, which provides for scrupulous compliance with the measures to preserve health and social behavior. current ”. , adds the note from the corporation.

The Jornal de Notícias reveals today that two festive lunches, one of which brought together 70 soldiers on the occasion of the departure of Colonel Jorge Ludovico Balls from the headquarters of the Porto Territorial Command, may have been the cause of an outbreak that has already spread to dozens of soldiers from the GNR stationed in Quartel do Carmo.