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Angola
COVID-19: Cases of the disease on the border between DRC and Angola put authorities and population on alert
June 04, 2020
Ven?ncio Rodrigues
The emergence of confirmed positive cases from Covid-19, in the Congolese province of Kwango, close to the Angolan diamond region of Lunda-Norte, puts the provincial government on alert and causes concern among local communities.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) already has more than three thousand cases of the disease, two of which are in the province of Kwango, which borders the Angolan municipalities of Cuilo, Caungula and Cuango.
The fact is leading the population to fear the worst, since “the region has no water or electricity from the public network, nor biosafety materials according to the elder”, J?lio No?.
Activist Jord?o Muacambinza says, for his part, that the permanent migratory flow in the region, motivated both by the mining of diamonds and by family ties between the population that lives along the two borders, leads residents to fear that the disease may spread. easily into Angola.
Muacambiza calls on the provincial governor to impose sanitary fences on the region, improve sanitary conditions in hospitals and send medicines and biosafety means to poor communities.
Government response
"If the Government does not take measures, we will die like flies", he warns.
Governor Ernesto Muangala assures, however, that health authorities have already started sending bio-security material and epidemiological surveillance teams to mass screening in the communities.
Muangala adds that there has been an increase in the number of personnel from the Angolan Armed Forces and the National Police to reinforce surveillance on the border with the province of Kwango (DRC).
The official calls on the populations living in the administrative districts concerned to remain at home and redouble preventive measures, as well as to denounce possible cases of attempted violation of the border.
On Wednesday, 3, Angola completed three days without registering new infections from Covid-19, with 86 positive cases remaining, four of which resulted in death, 18 recovered and 64 active patients, mostly considered asymptomatic.
Angola
COVID-19: Cases of the disease on the border between DRC and Angola put authorities and population on alert
June 04, 2020
Ven?ncio Rodrigues
The emergence of confirmed positive cases from Covid-19, in the Congolese province of Kwango, close to the Angolan diamond region of Lunda-Norte, puts the provincial government on alert and causes concern among local communities.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) already has more than three thousand cases of the disease, two of which are in the province of Kwango, which borders the Angolan municipalities of Cuilo, Caungula and Cuango.
The fact is leading the population to fear the worst, since “the region has no water or electricity from the public network, nor biosafety materials according to the elder”, J?lio No?.
Activist Jord?o Muacambinza says, for his part, that the permanent migratory flow in the region, motivated both by the mining of diamonds and by family ties between the population that lives along the two borders, leads residents to fear that the disease may spread. easily into Angola.
Muacambiza calls on the provincial governor to impose sanitary fences on the region, improve sanitary conditions in hospitals and send medicines and biosafety means to poor communities.
Government response
"If the Government does not take measures, we will die like flies", he warns.
Governor Ernesto Muangala assures, however, that health authorities have already started sending bio-security material and epidemiological surveillance teams to mass screening in the communities.
Muangala adds that there has been an increase in the number of personnel from the Angolan Armed Forces and the National Police to reinforce surveillance on the border with the province of Kwango (DRC).
The official calls on the populations living in the administrative districts concerned to remain at home and redouble preventive measures, as well as to denounce possible cases of attempted violation of the border.
On Wednesday, 3, Angola completed three days without registering new infections from Covid-19, with 86 positive cases remaining, four of which resulted in death, 18 recovered and 64 active patients, mostly considered asymptomatic.