An outbreak of Covid-19, which already has six confirmed cases, was detected among workers who are assembling the solar panels of the mega photovoltaic plant at the former Herdade de Finca Rodilha, in Alcoutim, he confirmed to Sul Informação the Algarve Regional Health Authority.
The first four cases were diagnosed on Tuesday, March 9, having meanwhile been confirmed two more infected, in a second round of tests, whose results were known yesterday, March 10.
“Tests are being carried out on about 50 workers. This Wednesday, the NHS team carried out 17 harvests at the site and some workers had already done tests in the Conventional Laboratory and in the University Hospital Center of the Algarve (CHUA)», according to the Health Authority.
Today, Thursday, more test results will be known.
Contacted by our newspaper, Osvaldo Gonçalves, mayor of Alcoutim, said that “the situation is being monitored and people are in isolation. But, of course, all this has raised some concern here».
Because, he explained, the workers of the company that is carrying out this project “are dispersed, they are not all on the farm. That's what makes us worry more. They are in at least three locations».
Even so, Osvaldo Gonçalves believes that there was no "close contact" between the workers and the other population, "even because people are afraid, due to the pandemic."
From the Regional Health Authority comes a guarantee that everything has been done to control the outbreak.
«The measures taken by the Local Health Authority were, in conjunction with the employer, separating workers with positive results from the rest in their accommodation. Precautions to be taken were communicated to workers and tests were scheduled. All this work was done in conjunction with the municipal structures involved, namely Civil Protection and local authorities», said this entity.
The workers "are doing isolation in the premises guaranteed by the company, with the necessary conditions".
"Let's hope that there is no community transmission, that it does not spread to the population in general", wished, for his part, Osvaldo Gonçalves.
This outbreak came on the day Alcoutim had stopped having active cases, according to data from the Regional Health Authority. This is not, moreover, the first time that Alcoutim no longer has active cases, for an outbreak to "spoil" everything.
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