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Government admits sharp increase in cases if quarantine is not complied

The Minister of Health stressed the importance of complying with the rules of the state of emergency, namely social isolation, under pain of witnessing an accelerated increase in infections of the new coronavirus.

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"If the measures that are reflected in the state of emergency are not followed, we will run the risk of, in the next 15 days, having an accelerated increase in cases", stressed Sílvia Lutucuta, in Luanda, at a press conference where she announced the first two deaths related to covid-19.

Angola has so far registered seven positive cases of covid-19, related to travelers who have returned to the country in recent weeks from Portugal.

"At this point, we still only have imported cases," said the minister, adding that there is a public health emergency in which all Angolans are called to collaborate.

"We can assume that the country is quarantined at home," said Sílvia Lutucuta, stressing that people should stay at home.

For the minister, “the secret is to start isolation, people comply”, “mass screening of suspected cases” and, as soon as “positive cases and their contacts are detected, isolate, isolate, isolate”, from to ensure that the transmission chain is not as fast.

According to the minister, the number of people in institutional quarantine (currently there are more than a thousand) has been increasing, as people who were intercepted at land borders entered the centers, others who were identified as violating the home quarantine and contacts of positive cases .

Sílvia Lutucuta added that there was "a marked reduction in the circulation of people on the streets" and underlined that if the rules are not followed, "more reinforced measures will be implemented" to prevent citizens from walking on the street unnecessarily.

The minister also said that Angola is also participating in research work on the behavior of the disease, "because the comorbidities are not the same as in the four corners of the world".

In Angola, there is "an important burden of endemic infectious diseases", so it is not known how covid-19 will behave in conjunction with other problems, such as malaria, malnutrition or tuberculosis, he said.

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