President of Cape Verde tests positive for Covid-19 after returning from Brussels and Portugal – Africa
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 have just tested positive for Covid-19. I have mild symptoms and I am in quarantine at home”, informed the head of state, on his personal page on the social network Facebook.
José Maria Neves tested positive for Covid-19, where he participated in the 15th Edition of the European 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 was interviewed by Francisco Pinto Balsemão, for a 50-year-old talk show, as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the founding of Expresso.
The Cape Verdean head of state had a schedule of events for this afternoon to receive the Olympic tea and an audience with the executive secretary of the Inter-State Committee to Fight 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.
Cabo Verde reached a daily record of about 1,400 new cases infected 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 there. of the second week of January.
The country from March to the alert situation, the least serious of three levels, currently maintaining a “minimum” level due to the covid-19 pandemic, making it mandatory to wear a mask on public roads at the end of April, too. 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.