In his daily update on the situation of covid-19 in the country, the Secretary of State also said that this was the eighth day in a row that no new cases had been reported.
Among the 19 infected with the new coronavirus, two people have died, five have recovered, including the two who have already been discharged, and twelve other patients remain active and are being followed up.
Eighteen of these patients are Angolan and one is South African and all have travelled to Angola from countries with community circulation of the virus, mostly from Portugal.
All cases are related to residents of the province of Luanda, with the Belas area recording the highest number of cases (9), followed by Maianga (3), Viana (3) and Talatona, Sambizanga, Ingombota and Kilamba Kiaxi, all with one case.
Franco Mufinda said that the Integrated Center for Public Security (CISP) did not register any complaints, but five alerts were reported that were investigated and "totally discarded".
With the five thousand rapid tests that arrived from Portugal on Wednesday, a study "in 200 subjects" was started this Thursday that will be compared with a confirmatory test, for validation.
The devices have already been distributed in 15 provinces and the objective, according to Franco Mufinda, is to distribute "these resources" throughout the territory.
"Next week we will go in search of cases in the community," said the governor, stressing that random studies will be done.
On a global level, the covid-19 pandemic has already caused more than 140,000 deaths and infected more than 2.1 million people in 193 countries and territories. More than 450,000 patients have been considered cured.
In Portugal, 629 people died out of 18,841 registered as infected.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
