Cape Verdean President José Maria Neves announced this Friday that he tested positive for Covid-19, after returning from Brussels and Portugal, and canceled all forecasts.

“I just tested positive for Covid-19. I have symptoms, insignificant and I comply with the quarantine period, at home ”, informed the head of state’s page on his personal on the network. Facebook.

Jose Maria Neves tested positive for Covid-19 after returning from Brusselswhere he participated in the 15th Edition of the Development Days, and carried out a parallel agenda of contacts on the sidelines of the event.

On Thursday, informed that he was in Portugal, where he visited the facilities of the television station SIC and the newspaper Expressoand was interviewed by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, for a talk show with 50 personalities, as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Expresso.

The Cape Verdean head of state had scheduled events for this Thursday afternoon to receive an Olympic touch and an audience with the executive secretary of the Inter-State Committee to Combat Drought in the Sahel (CILSS), but they were cancelled.

José Maria Neves is the second politician to publicly publish having been infected with the new coronavirus, after the prime minister, two weeks ago.

Cape Green reached a daily record of about 1,400 new infections with the new coronavirus in a single day in January, with a new Ómicron variant already circulating in the archipelago, then registering more than 7,000 active cases, but the situation quickly improved from the second week of January.

The country returned on March 6 to the alert situation, or less severe of three levels, currently maintaining a “minimum” level of received Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is also mandatory to wear a mask on public roads and, at the end of April, a pandemic in closed spaces.

In recent days, the record of a trend towards an increase in cases of infections, currently having 1,079 active.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Cape Verde has already recorded a total of 58,995 accumulated cases, of which 57,461 cases have recovered from the disease and 403 have died.

On Monday, the Cape Verdean prime minister ruled out the return of restrictive measures, such as the use of mandatory mask in closed spaces, due to the increase in cases, but recommended self-protection.