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The ACES Alto Tâmega e Barroso Health Authority learned that the staff and technical team of Desp. Chaves had participated in a convivial dinner just at 6:34 p.m. this Saturday, less than an hour and a half before the scheduled start of the match between the Flavians and Feirense.
The information is contained in a statement sent by the Northern Regional Health Administration, which details the chronology of events since a positive case of covid-19 was detected on September 10 in a Desportivo de Chaves player.
In the same note, it is mentioned that, after the case, the mechanisms inherent to the intervention in public health were unleashed: epidemiological investigation, through the identification of contacts, evaluation of the risk of exposure and the application of public health measures that were appropriate depending on the situation. case evaluation.
The next day, Friday, under the pre-match test plan, less than 48 hours from Feirense-Desp. Chaves, three more cases were identified, of a player and two members of the technical team.
Hours later, at 6:34 p.m., the Local Health Authority was informed of the existence of the aforementioned coexistence dinner organized by Desp. Chaves days before and, he stressed in the same statement, “in the middle of the infectious period of confirmed confirmed cases.”
«In coordination, the Local, Autonomous and National Health Authorities decided to determine the precautionary measures that prevented the participation of that club in the soccer championship match. This decision was communicated to the medical doctor of the Desportivo de Chaves Group, at 7 pm on the same day, “it also read.
For Sinal TV, the regional television channel of the city of Chaves, the delegate of the Public Health Unit (USP) of Alto Tâmega and Barroso was perplexed that the two clubs and the League acted “as if nothing.” after they were told that the game could not take place.
«I received the information at 7 in the afternoon that Chaves had already been notified. We had a restricted time frame, we opted to make this first telephone contact, informing about the situation, knowing that the official written confirmation would be sent later. What we did not expect at all is that the clubs and the League would proceed with everything as if it were nothing, ignoring the information that was already final, although it is not yet official, that the match could not be played ” Gustavo Martins-Coelho said.
(article updated at 10:10 pm)
