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Covid-19: Angola with over 140 cases and Government warns of default risks

Angola registered one more death and 140 cases of covid-19, on the day the second phase of vaccination began, announced the Minister of Health, calling for compliance with prevention measures, due to the risk of new strains.

: Lusa
Lusa  

According to Silvia Lutucuta, 134 new infections were registered in the last 24 hours in Luanda, five in Huambo and one in Zaire, of which 63 were female and 77 male, aged between 2 and 88 years.

One more death was also reported, in Luanda, a 58-year-old Angolan woman, and 227 people recovered from the disease, of which 220 in Luanda, aged between 1 and 84.

A total of 2627 samples were tested out of 508,543 samples processed.

The number of cases of infection by the new coronavirus detected so far in Angola is 27,133, of which 603 deaths, 2390 active cases and 24,190 recoveries.

The health minister reiterated that new cases are appearing in all age groups, and symptomatic ones, warning about the community circulation of virulent strains such as South African and English in Luanda, and called for people in quarantine and home isolation to scrupulously comply with the measures.

"We have been seeing situations in which isolation is recommended and people do not comply, living with other family members, and we are seeing new infections in these households, especially children and older people," he said.

By leaving home "they are also generating new transmission chains", continued the governor, appealing again to the population to report defaulters.

The Health official also asked to respect Luanda's sanitary fence, leaving the province only in case of need, and stressed that the pressure on the testing stations at the exits of the fence has increased considerably.

"We have already had in one day more than 11 cases at one point," he indicated.

On the day the country began the second phase of immunization with AstraZeneca's vaccine, which aims to cover 530,000 people, Silvia Lutucuta also appealed to people who are called for vaccination to fulfill their civic and patriotic duty and was optimistic about the possibility of acquiring a Cuban vaccine.

"As soon as I get approval, of course, we will use all safe vaccines approved and certified," he replied at the press conference in Luanda.

Angola has received one million doses of vaccine from AstraZeneca under the Covax initiative, as well as donations from China (200,000 doses from Sinopharm) and has authorized the purchase of six million doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.

The covid-19 pandemic has caused at least 3,203,937 deaths worldwide, resulting from more than 152.7 million cases of infection, according to an assessment made by the French agency AFP.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.

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