Ver Angola

Health

Doctor says that cases with a link to clarify "is community transmission of the disease"

The Angolan doctor Jeremias Agostinho considers that the "positive cases of covid-19 with an unclear link", constitute, "strictly" a "community transmission" of the disease and questions the Government's alleged consideration in making the situation official.

Quintiliano dos Santos:

Angola, which is in a state of public calamity, currently has 212 cases of the covid-19, namely 121 active, 20 of which have an "epidemiological link yet to be determined", 81 recovered and 10 deaths.

According to Jeremias Agostinho, the positive cases of covid-19 with a link to be clarified, "as the Angolan Government calls it", are "typical cases of community transmission of the disease that is expected to happen in our country as it happened in other countries as time".

"Officially we do not have community transmission. We have a denomination that is links to clarify, a link to clarify the rigor of the word is a community transmission because we are already in 20 cases", said the doctor, speaking to Lusa.

For the master in Public Health, Angola is currently in a situation "very similar to community transmission and which in other countries has already been considered, when they were in a phase like this".

At least, he noted, in the capital the behavior of the disease "is being what we call the community transmission of the virus".

In addition to imported cases and local transmission, assumed by the authorities, this week the multisectoral commission for the control and combat of the pandemic in Angola has announced positive cases "epidemiological link to be determined".

Asked about the possible fear of the authorities in assuming the existence of a community circulation of covid-19, the pediatrician admitted that the "high illiteracy rate" in the country is helping the Government to "delay officializing" the new form of the disease in the country. parents.

Because the "population with little education has a tendency to take somewhat extreme measures, such as joining supermarkets to purchase large quantities of food, in short, there is a likelihood that information like this will have a strong impact on our population".

"Maybe that explains the fear on the part of the multisectoral commission in declaring community circulation", he noted.

But, he added, "we have to say that, in the case of community circulation, this will not change the life of the citizen in any way, because the measures that will be taken will already be part of the so-called mitigation phase contained in the contingency plan".

In the joint decree of the Ministries of Interior and Health on the health fence in the province of Luanda, the public health authority recognizes that "Luanda is in an epidemiological situation compatible with active community transmission, which means that there is a risk of rapid spread and may even give rise to new transmission chains in neighboring areas ".

Referring to the provisions of the meltdown, the doctor stresses that community circulation is provided for in the diploma and "now what we want to understand is why we hesitate to make this declaration".

Jeremias Agostinho also said that the daily acceleration of positive cases in Angola stems from the cacimbo period, whose low temperatures and humidity provide coughs and sneezes that increase the likelihood of disease transmission.

Another reason, he added, "is clearly the increase in testing capacity in the country, we have more than 400 tests daily and this means that we have no more cases, but more cases are discovered".

"Since 97 percent of the cases in our country are asymptomatic, then probably what we are doing is finding them out," he concluded.

Related

Permita anúncios no nosso site

×

Parece que está a utilizar um bloqueador de anúncios
Utilizamos a publicidade para podermos oferecer-lhe notícias diariamente.