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COVID-19: Number of infected in Oliveira do Bairro rises to 12 and tests will continue – News

A source from the municipality chaired by Duarte Novo also acknowledged that he was aware that a group “around 100 people,” which included two councilors without responsibilities, was being accompanied by health authorities after they had been at the bar, located in Alameda’s headquarters. county.

Duarte Novo asked, however, on behalf of the Municipal Civil Protection, that “all people strictly comply with the protection measures of the Directorate-General for Health, namely the use of a mask and social distance”.

The mayor recalls that “self-isolation is mandatory by law, when the diagnosis is confirmed”, and added that “he contacted all local and regional health and safety entities, transmitting the information he had and making himself available for whatever is necessary to do, in order to control the situation and prevent more people from being infected ”.

At the beginning of the confinement, the municipality purchased 1,000 tests for the detection of covid-19, produced in Germany and approved by Infarmed, to screen for infection in the most vulnerable groups of the population in the municipality.

It also created an “exceptional and temporary social support program”, within the scope of the measures related to the epidemiological situation of covid-19, which included psychological support, legal support and support in the collection and delivery of purchases and essential goods in the supermarket, medicines and other essential products.

It also distributed visually, masks and disinfectant gel to traders and the rest of the population.

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