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Adriano Maranhão’s wife says her husband is being treated as a leper


Plumber woman infected with coronavirus prays that Adriano Maranhão’s diagnosis is wrong and her husband can return home. He also accuses that he is being treated as a leper.

Emmanuelle Maranhão, wife of the first Portuguese man infected with the coronavirus, cherishes the hope that the analyzes that her husband will carry out at the University Hospital of Fujita, where he was transferred this Tuesday morning, will not confirm the diagnosis. “I am praying that, after doing the first serious exam and the X-ray, I will be negative,” he told JN.

A resident of Nazaré, Emmanuelle explained that her husband, Adriano Maranhão, a plumber who was isolated for four days on the cruise ship “Diamond Princess”, traveled by bus, with 18 other infected people, for seven hours, wearing only a mask, and without medical follow-up.

“He was transported by bus, with the police and military behind and in front”, who took the crew members’ belongings, says Emmanuelle. However, contrary to her expectations, neither the company where her husband works, the American Princess Cruises, nor the Portuguese Embassy in Japan were represented.

“They are a group of lepers, who walk back and forth, and no one gets close to them,” accuses the infected Portuguese woman. “When we are transported by ambulance, someone will always accompany us. Firefighters or the police,” he claims. In this case, this did not happen.

Foreign Minister says “Japan has been impeccable”

Speaking to RTP, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva, guarantees that the State is following the case of Adriano Maranhão and thanked the work of the Portuguese officials at the embassy in Japan.

“The next steps are the formal treatment of our fellow citizen, for as long as it is indefensible, to get well, so that there is no doubt about his state of health, to make sure that he has overcome this problem,” said Augusto Santos Silva.

“Japan has been impeccable in the way it has responded to our insistences. Therefore, we trust the Japanese authorities, we also trust our fellow citizen, we support their respective family, we are in solidarity with them in this difficult time and we do our job”, added Augusto Santos Silva.

Presidency of the Republic available to bridge the gap in communication

Adriano Maranhão’s wife revealed that the office of the Presidency of the Republic guaranteed that she was dealing with “a communication channel” to bridge the gap and monitor her husband’s situation.

Speaking to journalists, Emanuelle Maranhão explained that he spoke with “someone from the office of the President of the Republic” who gave him the guarantee that he was “trying to open a communication channel that would bridge the gap” after Adriano was admitted to the hospital, after several days aboard the “Diamond Princess”, where 700 cases were confirmed, which resulted in four deaths, with the last death to be announced this Tuesday by the Japanese authorities.

Coronavirus killed more than 2700 people worldwide

The provisional balance of the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic is 2705 dead and more than 80,000 people infected, according to data reported to date by about 30 countries.

In addition to 2665 deaths in China, where the outbreak began at the end of the year, there are fatalities in Iran, South Korea, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, France and Taiwan.

In Portugal, there have already been 14 suspected cases, which were negative after analysis, with a new case being evaluated.

* with Augusto Correia

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