Covid-19: Angola keeps 36 positive cases

According to Franco Mufinda, who spoke at the usual update point for Covid-19, Angola continues with the nine cases of local transmission.

O secretário de Estado fez saber que o laboratório nacional processou quatro mil 306 amostras, com 36 casos positivos e três mil 504 negativas.

Apontou que a quarentena institucional tem mil e 47 pessoas controladas em todo o país, enquanto os casos suspeitos investigados são 414 e os contactos directos e ocasionais somam 996.

No intuito de conter a propagação da pandemia, Angola observa, desde as 00h00 de domingo (26 de Abril), o terceiro período do Estado de Emergência, a vigorar até às 23h59 do dia 10 de Maio, cumprindo-se 45 dias consecutivos de isolamento social.

This is the second extension, of 15 days, of the exceptional regime, this time with a lightening of the measures.

The State of Emergency was decreed on March 25 by the President of the Republic, João Lourenço, after a favorable opinion from the National Assembly, and was in force from March 27 to April 10, having been extended to the period from 11 to 25 of the current month.

In the framework of the extension, between restrictions and openings, the circulation and permanence of people on the public road is no longer prohibited and the use of masks is now mandatory for all those who go out or expose themselves in public places.

Among the impositions, in these new 15 days of health fence, there remains the obligation for workers assigned to essential services, from the public and private sectors, to be accompanied by declarations and service passes.