The Monção Chamber announced, this Monday, three more deaths by infection of covid-19 registered in the county. One of them is that of the emigrant who traveled by bus to Merufe and which is the first confirmed case of this disease in the Viana do Castelo district.
In a note published on Facebook in the municipality of Raiano, it is said that these three new deaths increase the number of deaths in the municipality to four.
The same bulletin reports five more people infected in the last 24 hours, including two employees of the local nursing home at Santa Casa da Misericórdia.
António Barbosa, president of the Chamber, says that “the usual procedures were triggered, all of which are duly followed up and monitored by the health authorities”.
According to the same source, Monção counts, this Monday, with 71 registered cases of covid-19, four deaths, two people recovered and 110 in quarantine. There are still 243 people in prophylactic isolation.
“Considering the increase of confirmed cases in the municipality, we leave an alert to all Monçanenses so that they do not let themselves fade in this fight against the virus, responding to each obstacle with a more vigorous and convinced attitude”, says the same note.
“We have to gain courage in the example of our heroine, Deu-la-Deu Martins. We have to seek serenity in João Verde’s poetry. We have to raise the sword of knight S. Jorge very high, for good to overcome evil. As it happened so many times ”, he adds.
“We kindly ask all Moncans to comply, strictly and with discipline, with the recommendations of the Municipality of Monção and the General Directorate of Health, as well as the measures registered in the State of National Emergency”, the mayor says
Portugal records 735 deaths associated with covid-19 in 20,863 confirmed cases of infection, according to the daily bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) on the pandemic.
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