COVID 19: MISAU team in Cabo Delgado to test contacts with infected individual

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COVID 19: MISAU team in Cabo Delgado to test contacts with infected individual

3:47 CAT | 03 Apr 2020

The Ministry of Health is sending a team to Pemba to test people who may have been in contact with an individual working in the LNG industry in the Palma district of Cabo Delgado who has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus.

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Minister of Health, Armindo Tiago announced yesterday that Mozambique’s 10th Covid-19 patient was infected in Cabo Delgado. “The 61-year-old is [currently] in Maputo City, he travelled from Pemba, is not hospitalised, and is in home-isolation in his home,” the minister explained.

Twelve days after detecting Patient Zero, the National Health Institute has carried out a total of 302 tests. “Of the 18 cases tested in the last 24 hours, all were negative for the new coronavirus,” the minister announced.

“One of the cases we announced yesterday (Tuesday) is a Mozambican (not South African) citizen working in a company in the Afungi region.” Minister Tiago detailed.

“A National Health Institute research team has already been there and identified all contacts, whether in Maputo or in Cabo Delgado. They are all being tested.”

Armindo Tiago clarified that Mozambique’s tenth Covid-19 patient was the first confirmed case of local transmission outside Maputo city.

“We have already identified all contacts, whether in Maputo or Cabo Delgado, and the joint teams of the provincial health directorate of Cabo Delgado and the directorate of the National Institute of Health, including the National Directorate of Public Health, are leaving for Cabo Delgado to test any contacts that this case may have had,” he said.

The oil company leading the project in the Golfinho and Tuna gas fields confirmed the facts of the case to @Verdade.

“Total E&P Mozambique Area 1 confirms that a worker at the project site in Afungi has been infected with Covid-19. On-site project management informed local health authorities.”

“In application of the rules established by the health authorities and by the Group, the decision was made to identify all persons who came into contact with that worker, in order to take all necessary preventative measures to limit the risk of contamination, including quarantining all people who had contact with the worker and disinfecting the premises. During this period, Total will provide all the necessary support,” Total E&P Mozambique Area 1 added in a briefing.

Source: Rádio Moçambique / A Verdade