The 13 infected elements are between 20 and 40 years old. They are in isolation at home. Family members are also under active surveillance.
All 120 elements of the Queluz volunteer firefighters were tested this Saturday, after the first cases were detected on Wednesday and Thursday among members of one of the pre-hospital emergency teams.
Commander Hugo Neves is one of those infected. He explained to RTP that he has mild symptoms, without the need for “concern”, he guarantees. The commander adds that it was not possible to determine the chain of transmission at the origin of this outbreak among firefighters.
However, he recalls that pre-hospital transport teams transport “more than a dozen confirmed cases” of infection every day, in a “city that is saturated with cases” of infection with the new coronavirus.
This is one of the 19 parishes that is still in a state of calamity and in the municipality that has the second highest number of cases in the whole country.
A team of firefighters from Lisbon was called to the Queluz fire station to assess the need for special disinfection for the entire barracks.
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The fire brigade commander considers that the measures taken do not jeopardize the firefighters’ response capacity.
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