The Attorney General’s Office (PGR) opened an investigation related to the Covid-19 outbreak in the village of Mora, Alentejo. “An investigation was launched with the object of a concrete situation related to the Mora suto, in the scope of which all the facts that come to the attention of the Public Prosecutor and that are likely to be part of the crime will not be investigated”, confirmed official PGR source to SATURDAY.
The investigation is directed by the DIAP Public Prosecutor’s Office in Évora.
According to the national press, the focus came with an elderly couple who was infected after a trip to Spain, and then went to the Algarve.
The number of people infected with covid-19 in the village of Mora, in the Évora district, rose to 54 today, four more than on Thursday, the mayor, Luís Simão, told Lusa.
The mayor, who alluded to the most recent data that he is aware of on the part of the Health Authority, indicated that “there is a record of four more infected today”, compared to the previous day. “These four new cases were detected in tests that continue to be carried out by the community”, said Luís Simão.
In the Hospital of Espírito Santo de Évora (HESE), five patients remain hospitalized, four of them in intensive care and one in the infirmary, said the mayor, correcting a previous information given to Lusa: “They are not all men, there is a woman” .
A source from HESE revealed to Lusa that the four patients admitted to the Covid Intensive Care Unit, three men and one woman, are aged between 64 and 69 years old, while the patient hospitalized in the ward, a man, is 89 years old.
The mayor of Mora has been at home since Thursday and “for a few days”, on the recommendation of the Health Authority, following tests on workers in the municipality this week, which revealed two infected people.
“My covid-19 test was negative, but as I contacted documents passed by the two infected in the chamber, I have to stay here and I’m working from home,” he told Lusa.
In fact, the closure of municipal services to the public, determined in an order signed by Luís Simão, “will continue”.
This outbreak came on the 9th of this month, when the first three positive cases in the community were confirmed, a number that has been rising, every day, as the contacts of infected people are being tested.
The council activated the Municipal Emergency Plan and closed, at the beginning of last week, public attendance services and other equipment, such as the Children’s Workshop, the Casa da Cultura, the Leisure Activities Center and sports facilities.
With the population confined to their home, as a precaution, they also closed cafes, restaurants and other commercial establishments.
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