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  • #31
    Source: https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/mun...-em-1541-casos

    Guinea-Bissau death toll rises to 17 in 1,541 cases
    The number of deaths by covid-19 in Guinea-Bissau rose to 17 and the number of infections registered since March to 1,541, announced today the coordinator of the Center for Emergency Health Operations (COES).
    ? Lusa
    Minute News
    19/06/20 14:03 ‧ 5 hours ago by Lusa

    According to Dion?sio Cumba, between Monday and Thursday 175 new samples were analyzed, of which 49 were positive.

    "We have, at this moment, 1,541 cases of covid-19 accumulated since the beginning of the pandemic," said Dion?sio Cumba, in the second press conference of the week to update the evolution of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus in the country.

    "The number of deaths has gone up, after two deaths have been confirmed this week," he said, now totaling 17.

    The Guinean doctor also said that the number of recovered remains at 153, but that Monday there should be updated data.

    The COES coordinator said that there are 44 people hospitalized in three hospitals in the country, namely 31 in the hospital of Cumura, six in the National Hospital Sim?o Mendes and seven in the hospital of Bor.

    The seven people admitted to Bor's hospital are on oxygen, he said.

    By regions, Dion?sio Cumba said that the Autonomous Sector of Bissau is the one that registers the highest number of infections by covid-19 with 1,451 cases, followed by the Biombo region, with 53, Cacheu, with 26, Bafat?, seven, Gabu, two , and Oio, two.

    As part of the fight against the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus, the Guinean President, Umaro Sissoco Embal?, declared the state of emergency in the country, which has already prolonged it five times, the last of which until the next 25th.

    In Africa, there are 7,395 confirmed deaths in more than 275,000 infected in 54 countries, according to the latest statistics on the continent's pandemic.

    Among African countries that have Portuguese as their official language, Equatorial Guinea leads in number of infections and deaths (1,664 cases and 32 deaths), followed by Guinea-Bissau (1,541 cases and 17 deaths), Cape Verde (849 cases and seven dead), S?o Tom? and Pr?ncipe (683 cases and 12 dead), Mozambique (662 cases and four dead) and Angola (166 infected and eight dead).

    Brazil is the Portuguese-speaking country most affected by the pandemic and one of the hardest hit in the world, when counting the second number of infected and dead (more than 978 thousand and 47 748, respectively), after the United States.

    The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 450,000 deaths and infected more than 8.4 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

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    • #32
      1,556 cases; 19 deaths: https://covid19gb.com/

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      • #33
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        Guinea-Bissau faces one of the worst Covid-19 crises in Africa
        ...

        By Matteo Maillard Posted today at 1:00 p.m.

        The voice is running out of steam. "Excuse me, I'm exhausted," said nurse Gim Manuel Intchala. I have been working more than twelve hours a day for weeks. My medical colleagues link services without counting. We receive thirty, forty, fifty patients a day and we no longer know where to put them ... it's hopeless. At Simao Mendes, the largest hospital in Guinea-Bissau, where he works, all the beds are occupied by Covid-19 patients. The saturation is such that the caregivers had to put up a tent outside to sort out the arrivals. In one month, the number of Covid-19 positive cases increased by 25. On April 30, there were only 54. On June 23: 1,556. "I'm afraid," said Gim.

        Guinea-Bissau is today facing an unprecedented health crisis. "It is the fastest spreading epidemic we have seen in Africa," said Monica Negrete, head of mission for Doctors Without Borders (MSF). The humanitarian organization sounded the alarm in May in the face of this spectacular increase which is transforming this small country of 1.8 million inhabitants into the first focus of the virus on the continent, in proportion to its population. "The peculiarity of this crisis and that it first hit medical personnel who lacked the equipment and the adequate training to protect themselves against the epidemic," she continues. In the first weeks, dozens of infected doctors and nurses had to stop working. Some hospital departments and medical structures have closed their doors despite record crowds, forcing the government to requisition two hotels, Azalai and Malaika, to isolate the sick in the capital, Bissau.

        "Now emergencies only cover Covid patients and leave out patients with other serious medical conditions," said Negrete. This contributes to increasing the number of indirect deaths from the coronavirus which will not be counted in the official figures. They struggle to keep up with the rapid spread of the virus, due to a lack of staff. As of June 16, the country had only sixteen deaths linked to the epidemic. A number "well below reality, says Monica Negrete. Many people, who could not be treated in time, died far from hospital structures. "

        Two competing governments

        With a health system already precarious before the crisis, the lack of equipment is glaring today. The tests are insufficient and "some patients wait up to three weeks before getting the results," said nurse Gim Manuel Intchala. We also cannot do a chest x-ray because our only device is broken. Of the nine patients received this morning, six are serious cases but only three are on artificial ventilation. The main hospital, located in Bissau, has only three respirators and there are ten for the whole country. In any case, they cannot all be used. "We're almost out of oxygen," says Intchala. We can only give them tea to relieve them. "
        ...
        The Covid-19 crisis was ignored by political elites to the point that even Embalo’s Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam announced on April 29 that he had been infected with coronavirus, as did the Minister of the Interior , Botch? Cand?, State Secretary for Public Order, Mario Famb?, and State Secretary for Regional Integration, Monica Buaro da Costa.

        Faced with the explosion of cases affecting up to the top of the State, President Embalo decided to dissolve the interministerial commission which had been created to manage the health crisis and to replace it, on June 5, by a high commission . At the helm, Dr. Magda Nely Robalo, Minister of the Opposition Government, an official of the World Health Organization (WHO) for twenty years, was chosen for her good knowledge in the management of epidemics and disasters.

        Heavily faulty machine

        On his new desk, the task seems immense. "I have to get precise data on the epidemic very quickly to understand the dynamics," says Magda Nely Robalo. Strategies must be reviewed, resources must be mobilized, and treatment centers should not be hotbeds of infection. We have had contamination of patients hospitalized for other pathologies because we have mismanaged the patient circuit. It is also necessary to assemble a team of confidence, to structure the line of order, to solve the problems of motivation and the payment of the subsidies. "

        In addition to the caregivers, some mobile medical teams had to stop working because they were no longer paid since the election. It’s a heavily broken machine that Mrs. Robalo needs to restart before the peak of the epidemic expected around mid-July.

        The most difficult remains: “Convince the population that the Covid-19 exists and make them adhere to preventive measures. As in many African countries, where families live in an informal economy on a day-to-day basis, strict containment will not be possible. Two out of three Bissau-Guineans live below the poverty line, a third of them in extreme poverty. Gim Manuel Intchala may say to himself that "we must remain united to win this war", he knows that it will "take a lot of lives". He pauses then adds, fateful: "When the peak arrives, not everyone can be saved. "

        Matteo Maillard (Bamako, correspondence)

        Alors que le pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest approche du pic épidémique, la crise post-électorale empêche un système sanitaire exsangue de répondre efficacement.
        "Safety and security don't just happen, they are the result of collective consensus and public investment. We owe our children, the most vulnerable citizens in our society, a life free of violence and fear."
        -Nelson Mandela

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        • #34
          Source: https://lifestyle.sapo.pt/saude/noti...imas-mortais-2

          COVID-19: Guinea-Bissau records over 40 new cases and two more fatalities
          N.N./Lusa
          29 Jun 2020 15:09

          Guinea-Bissau has recorded 40 new cases of covid-19 and two more fatalities, bringing the total number of infections caused by the new coronavirus pandemic to 1,654, the coordinator of the Center for Emergency Health Operations said today.
          COVID-19: Guinea-Bissau records over 40 new cases and two more fatalities

          "Between Friday and Saturday, 40 new cases and two more fatalities were confirmed, increasing the number of deaths to 24 and bringing the cumulative total to 1,654," said Dion?sio Cumba, coordinator of the Center for Emergency Health Operations.

          According to the Guinean doctor, who was speaking at a press conference to take stock of the evolution of the pandemic in the country, the 40 new cases are distributed by Bissau (30), Bafat? (07), Biombo (01) and Cacheu (02).

          The number of recovered remains at 317.
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          "There are 22 people hospitalized," said the Guinean doctor, noting that the number of active cases is 1,313.

          The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embal?, decided last week to prolong the state of emergency in the country until July 25, due to the increase in the number of infections and ending the curfew.

          In the regulation of the state of emergency, the Guinean Government decided to create sanitary fences in all regions of the country and to prohibit the movement of people outside its region...

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          • #35
            Source: https://www.sapo.pt/noticias/atualid...9f4d547b3b737a


            Guinea-Bissau death toll rises to 25 in 1,765 cases
            The death toll from covid-19 in Guinea-Bissau has risen to 25, plus one, and there are 111 new cases, increasing the total infected to 1,765, according to the Emergency Health Operations Center (COES).

            According to the COES coordinator, Dion?sio Cumba, this week another 283 new samples were analyzed in the country, of which 111 were positive for covid-19.

            "Our total accumulated in the country is 1,765, since the beginning of the pandemic," said the Guinean doctor, at the press conference on the evolution of covid-19 in the country.

            "Unfortunately, we have to announce yet another case of death, a young woman, 22, who died in Bafat?," said the Guinean doctor, bringing the number of fatalities to 25.

            Dion?sio Cumba also said that another 359 people were said to be "infection-free", bringing the number of recovered to 676.

            Regarding the hospitalized, the doctor said that 30 people are hospitalized, namely 16 at the Sim?o Mendes National Hospital, nine in Cumura and five in Bor.

            "In total, subtracting the number of dead and recovered, there are 1,064 active cases in the country", of which 1,027 are in the Autonomous Sector of Bissau, 35 are in the Biombo region, 18 in Cacheu, 10 in Bafat?, two in Gabu, 10 in Oio and one in Tombali, he said.

            The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than 521,000 deaths and infected more than 10.88 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.

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            • #36
              Source: http://portocanal.sapo.pt/noticia/227811

              Covid-19: Guinea-Bissau registers 25 more new ones and increases the number of recovered to 760
              07-07-2020 16:10 | World
              Porto Canal with Lusa

              Bissau, 06 Jul 2020 (Lusa) - Guinea-Bissau recorded between Thursday and Saturday another 25 new cases of infection by covid-19 and increased the number of recovered to 760, said today the Center for Emergency Health Operations of the parents.

              "There were 25 new positives in the country", said, in a press conference, the coordinator of the Center for Emergency Health Operations (COES), Dion?sio Cumba.

              According to the Guinean doctor, the country has an accumulated total of 1,790 cases of covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic in Guinea-Bissau.

              The country recorded the first cases of covid-19 in March. Dion?sio Cumba kept the death toll at 25.

              "Regarding the number of recovered, it has risen to 760 people," he said.

              Guinea-Bissau has 1,005 active cases of covid-19.

              Regarding the number of hospitalized patients, the Guinean doctor stated that there are 19 people at the Sim?o Mendes National Hospital, three of whom are in a serious condition, but did not give the figures for the Bor and Cumura hospitals, as they did not have updated data.

              By regions, the total number of cases accumulated for covid-19 is 1,673 in the Autonomous Sector of Bissau, 56 in Biombo, 27 in Cacheu, 21 in Bafat?, two in Gabu, 10 in Oio and two in Tombali.

              The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embal?, declared, for the sixth time, the state of emergency in the country until July 25 because of the pandemic caused by the new coronavirus.

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              • #37
                Source: http://portocanal.sapo.pt/noticia/228365

                Covid-19: Guinea-Bissau with 52 more positive cases and one deadly victim
                10/07-2020 15:23 | World
                Porto Canal with Lusa

                Bissau, 10 Jul 2020 (Lusa) - The death toll from covid-19 in Guinea-Bissau has risen today to 26, plus one, and there are 52 new cases of covid-19 infection, rising the total to 1,842, according to the Center for Emergency Health Operations.

                "A further 52 new cases and one more deadly victim have been registered," said the coordinator of the Guinean Health Emergency Operations Center (COES), Dion?sio Cumba.

                According to the doctor, the new accumulated in the country is 1,842 cases, including 26 fatalities and 773 recovered.

                The coordinator of the Center for Emergency Health Operations said that 23 people are hospitalized, namely 14 at the Sim?o Mendes National Hospital, six at Cumura hospital and three at Bor hospital.

                "The country currently has 1,043 active cases," he said.

                In relation to the total accumulated by regions, the Autonomous Sector of Bissau has 1,724 cases (960 active), Biombo with 56 (36 active), Cacheu with 27 (18 active), Bafat? with 21 (14 active), Gabu with two (two assets), Oio with 11 (11 assets) and Tombali with two cases (two assets).

                "I appeal to the entire population to respect rules and comply with the guidelines that are being given", asked Dion?sio Cumba.

                As part of the fight against the new coronavirus pandemic, the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embal?, closed borders in March, having subsequently declared the state of emergency in the country.

                The state of emergency has already been extended six times, the last of which until July 25...

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                • #38
                  1,927 cases; 26 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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                  • #39
                    1,949 cases; 26 deaths: https://covid19gb.com/2020/07/18/cov...il-acumulados/

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                    • #40
                      1,954 cases; 26 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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                      • #41
                        2,862 cases; 38 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/yt

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                        • #42
                          1,954 cases; 26 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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                          • #43
                            1,981 cases; 26 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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                            • #44
                              1,981 cases; 27 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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                              • #45
                                2,022 cases; 27 deaths: https://covid19.who.int/region/afro/country/gw

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