"Individuals who have had contact with infected suspects or active cases, please help to report them", appealed to Deputy Commissioner Valdemar José, in the balance sheet on the epidemiological situation of the new coronavirus in the country.
In this situation are some residents of Luanda condominiums, "properly identified", who "hide" with the connivance of family members, said the police spokesman, asking them to report to health authorities, stressing that they are even conditioning the free circulation in those places.
"In the next 48 hours, if these citizens continue to show resistance to take a voluntary test, we will collect them coercively", warned Valdemar José, stressing that it is "a very limited group" that puts the life of the community at risk .
The representative of the Ministry of the Interior (Minint) guaranteed: "This will not be allowed." Valdemar José said that there is no other solution than to be "more energetic" when there are non-compliances, regretting the disobedience to the rules of the state of emergency, namely the social distance and limitations on circulation, stressing that the country is still in time to "prevent deaths".
The Minint official pointed out, as an example not to follow, the many European countries that ignored the disease and where citizens "did not stay at home".
The authorities will continue to record high numbers of disrespect for the state of emergency, including collective taxis with overcrowding or speculative prices, attempts to trick the police to cross the sanitary fence of Luanda province, street vendors practicing the activity on prohibited days or citizens who use false credentials to claim labor need for displacement.
In the last 24 hours, 107 citizens were detained for disobedience, of which 53 for violating the border and 54 for contempt of authority and 143 individuals who circulated in an unjustified way, said Valdemar José, stressing that "coercive measures will only be applied if the citizen does not alternative ".
Angola has not registered positive cases of infection with the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours, keeping the 27 already diagnosed, indicated the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda.
So far 2,598 samples have been processed, 27 positive, 2088 negative and 483 in processing and 719 people are in institutional quarantine.
This Wednesday, more than 200 samples of passengers from 17 March flights, which arrived in Luanda from Lisbon, were taken just before Angola closed the air borders, the results being presented in the coming days, said Franco Mufinda.
