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About a thousand employees of the French multinational Total working on the Afungi peninsula in Palma, Cabo Delgado, have returned to their homes after a long and exhausting quarantine of almost two months.
Health authorities say they have discharged only those whose results came back negative for Covid-19 in the latest tests.
“At the time the outbreak was declared in Afungi, we tested more than a thousand workers. Even workers who had not had contact with those infected only left Afungi if they had a negative result,” Provincial Director of Health in Cabo Delgado Magido Sabuna said.
Currently, health authorities are monitoring workers infected with Covid-19 still in Afungi.
Over the next few days, another group of workers in quarantine in Pemba will be discharged.
“We are still monitoring 178 Total employees in secondary quarantine in tourist resorts in Pemba. They will go home, after reconfirming the results of tests, in order to ensure that they do not take the virus home to their families,” Sabuna explained.
But while some are getting ready to re-join their families, others are still in Afungi receiving medical care.
“Of the current 56 active cases in the province, 40 are in Afungi, where we are working hard to cut the contamination cycle, starting with the Total camps,” Sabuna added.
Since the coronavirus epidemic broke out in Cabo Delgado, 1,864 people have been tested, of whom 85 tested positive. Of these, 29 have fully recovered. Most of the cases so far identified in the province, both positive and recovered, were recorded at the Total camps.
By Hizidine Achá
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