In a press conference this Friday, the holder of the health portfolio also said that Cuban doctors are expected to arrive next week to help fight the epidemic in Angola. The minister also said that health professionals will come at the request of the Government, but did not need numbers.
Sílvia Lutucuta revealed that there are four Angolans hospitalized with the disease abroad. Two are in Portugal and two in China. There is also a suspicious case in South Africa. He further advanced, cited by Angop, who died in France an Angolan priest, also a victim of covid-19.
The spokeswoman for the Multisectoral Commission for Response to Pandemic, made a point of underlining that Angola is the only country in the world with a mandatory institutional quarantine model, in order to isolate and control suspicious people.
Still at the same press conference, Pedro Sebastião, Minister of State and Head of the Security House of the President of the Republic, made it known that the country still has eight positive cases of covid-19, with no more confirmed cases in the last 24 hours. disease. These eight cases result in five citizens being treated, one recovered and two deaths.
Five hundred people who maintained contact with the eight patients diagnosed with the new coronavirus are being actively monitored by health authorities.
He also informed that there are currently 162 suspected cases. The country has 441 people in institutional quarantine and 818 in home quarantine.
