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The mayor of Caminha warned today of “false” SMS that call the population to vaccinate anti-vaccine-19, and calls to instruct the elderly to suspend the medication to receive the vaccine, cases that have already been reported to the GNR.
In statements to the Lusa agency, Miguel Alves said that these cases are “very strange and extremely serious.”
“This is Crazy. I hope that the Republican National Guard identifies those responsible for these criminal acts,” said the mayor of Caminha, in the Viana do Castelo district.
“I really wanted to leave this alert to the population so that they take the utmost care. The vaccination process is going very well and because of bad taste or with bad intentions there is someone who seems to want to discredit him, ”said the socialist mayor.
Miguel Alves said that he was alerted by the Alto Minho Local Health Unit (ULSAM), which presented “two criminal complaints, one related to phone calls and the other to messages.”
“What we want to do is stop this immediately. Alert the population. Don’t be fooled, ”he warned.
Contacted by Lusa, Captain Pedro Costa, from the Territorial Command of GNR Viana do Castelo, confirmed that “a complaint was filed by the health authorities, denouncing the false messages and phone calls.”
“The complaint was sent to the Public Ministry (MP). We are waiting for your investigation to be delegated to a security force. This investigation can be delegated to the GNR, or to the Judicial Police, “he added.
The GNR army stressed that phone calls to instruct the elderly to stop taking the medication can “endanger the health and well-being of people, if they receive the vaccine.”
The mayor of Caminha explained that fake text messages (SMS) were detected in the last week.
At least ten people received false notifications to go to the community vaccination center created by the municipality, in the parish of Seixas, causing a “natural disturbance” in the process.
Miguel Alves also referred to the “most serious case” of at least three people who received a phone call, “informing them that they should stop taking their usual medication” before getting vaccinated.
“We are talking about people over 80 who were asked to get vaccinated two weeks ago. Meanwhile, they received the phone call to stop taking the drugs they usually take, ”he said, referring that at least one followed the false instruction.
For the mayor, “this is very serious and very strange that it only happens in Caminha.”
“Either it is a mindless fool making these calls and sending these SMS or it is a malicious fool. It is madness that is putting people’s lives at risk, ”he said.
Miguel Alves explained that in Caminha, as in the Viana do Castelo district, the first notification of the covid-19 vaccine is made by “telephone call by administrative teams or medical teams”, and never by text message (SMS) .
“If an SMS arrives, it is false,” warned the mayor, referring that the same happens with phone calls asking for the suspension of the medication.
“If you have doubts, what we ask you is that you get in touch with the family doctor, the health center of the area of residence, or on the edge of the Câmara de Caminha or even the Seixas community vaccination center,” he reinforced .
In Caminha, according to the mayor’s data, 1,113 people have already received the two doses of the covid-19 vaccine and 1,853 were inoculated with the first dose.
The covid-19 pandemic has caused more than 2.8 million deaths worldwide, in almost 130 million cases of contagion, since the virus that causes the disease was identified at the end of 2019, according to a balance of the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 16,868 people died out of 822,862 confirmed cases of infection.
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