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Pat least 67 young Belgians, aged between 18 and 20, are infected with COVID-19-19 after returning from vacation in Albufeira at the beginning of the month, being in home isolation in Belgium, the Belgian authorities announced today.
At the usual press conference on the situation of the pandemic of COVID-19-19 in Portugal, Graça Freitas explained that the matter is being investigated, but said that the organizers of the trip already admitted that the young people did not comply with the safety regulations that were explained “insistently” by these organizers of the trip and the Portuguese authorities. .
The young people, the official said, were part of organized groups and many shared the same vacation spot. Graça Freitas admitted that the case of contagion may even have its origin in some of the young people of the group, given that there is an incubation period for the disease and that many cases are asymptomatic.
For now, he added, the Algarve health authorities will carry out an “analysis retrospective events “to try to find the first case”, but there is no guarantee that it was in Portugal where infection It has been verified. “
According to the Belgian authorities, about half of these 67 young people infected – who are between 18 and 20 years old and are isolated from home – participated in a stay organized by the Belgian tour operator Summer Bash, specialized in trips for young people between 16 and 24 years old, while the rest rented a private house for the holidays .
Portugal accounts for at least 1,878 deaths associated with COVID-19-19 out of 65,626 confirmed cases of infection, according to the latest DGS.
Worldwide, pandemic of COVID-19-19 has already caused at least 936,095 deaths and more than 29.6 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
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