Fifth infected by covid-19 in Portugal is professor at the Polytechnic of Porto

The fifth infected by covid-19 in Portugal is a professor at the School of Music and Performing Arts (ESMAE), which is part of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), and recently returned from Italy.

The news, advanced by JN, was confirmed to DN at the source of the higher education institution, which will close doors indefinitely. At 18.30, the school board was meeting with the authorities to decide what to do.

“We are going to suspend the teaching activity as of Thursday because the number of people that we have in social isolation does not allow us to continue to keep the school functioning. They are not infected, attention, they are only in social isolation,” president of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (IPP), João Rocha, where this school is integrated.

ESMAE staff received recommendations from the health delegate and people who had the closest contact with the infected teacher should remain in isolation.

Between 800 and 1000 people circulate in the school, including teachers, students and employees.

This Wednesday, in a note sent to the newsrooms, DGS informs that this Thursday it was confirmed this fifth positive case for Covid-19 disease, which causes respiratory infections such as pneumonia, and that the 44-year-old man is at the Center University Hospital of São João. “The clinical situation is stable”, he adds.