The moments of tension and the climate of frustration are visible in the country, advances the Jornal de Notícias. On Saturday - the day the first cases of Covid-19 in Angola were confirmed - in a supermarket in the capital, several Angolans attacked a Portuguese woman.
The victim, 50 years old, works at the Portuguese School in Luanda and had to be assisted in hospital after suffering a head trauma.
The case was reported to the Portuguese newspaper by a colleague of the victim, who is a teacher at the same school, and who preferred not to be identified. The source said she was afraid to leave home because she was constantly insulted and threatened: "Go away (...), you brought the disease, go to your home".
The teacher, who arrived in the country in January - a time when the situation was under minimal control in Angola and, for this reason, she did not carry out compulsory quarantine - considered that since Saturday the climate has been tense and pointed the finger at the government because it had appealed to Angolans to denounce "those who enter Angola and do not carry out compulsory quarantine".
"Moments after the announcement of the first infected, the list began to be shared on social networks," he said.
The Portuguese wish is now to return to their country. She said she had a return flight scheduled for 28 March, but it was cancelled. She has already asked the embassy to repatriate her family, but so far she has received no response.
She also said that since October salaries have not been paid, making her unable to buy a ticket for the return flight: "The flights that are being allowed to leave Luanda are around 2300 euros the ticket, an example of the announced Euroatlantick flight to repatriate the Portuguese," she said, adding that there will be a TAP flight with "prices from 1800 euros," but that for "teachers with delayed pay, it is unsustainable".
Contacted by Jornal de Notícias, the Portuguese School of Luanda denied the delay in payment of salaries.
