COVID-19: Angola records four more cases of community transmission. A two month-old baby tests positive for covid-19

A new outbreak of infection with the new coronavirus has been recorded in Luanda. "COMMUNITY TRANSMISSION"

The ministry of health reported today in a press conference that in the last 24 hours, 4 more cases of community transmission were registered in the country, totaling 77 confirmed positive cases.

These are two men (one aged 16 and another aged 35) and two women (one aged 25 and another aged 49), thus bringing the number of cases of  transmission to 49.


From the laboratory work, more than 10,000 samples have been collected to date, of which 77 are positive, 8,195 are negative and the rest are still being processed.

A two-month-old baby tests positive for covid-19

A two-month-old baby, resident in the Hoji-ya-Henda neighborhood, Cazenga municipality, in Luanda, who tested positive for Covid-19. According to the Minister of Health, who was updating the pandemic situation in the country, this case is under investigation, because the mother has no Covid-19, but had contact with positive cases. 

“The child was tested positive, there have already been many cases of disagreement by the form of contagion, with patients of high viral load who lived with wives and children, but were not contaminated, " she said.

The outbreak of covid-19

The first cases of covid-19 are manifesting only now after two months. There was negligence on the part of the government for having sent home passengers that came from Portugal and fulfill the quarantine at home. These passengers violated the prevention rules, thus contaminating many people. 

The most frightening thing is that the government decided to open schools next month, because teachers from private schools are claiming for their salaries. This will put the lives of many people at risk. 

Angola does not have any distance learning system. Moreover, the Internet is very expensive and not all teachers as well as students have digital literacy, no matter how much they try to do video conferencing through the zoom app, it is not working at all. Online class in Angola has been a huge failure.

Private institutions require students to pay tuition fees so that teachers can have salaries. Students refuse to pay tuition because they are sitting at home without having classes and schools are closed.

The jobs of the parents of many of these students have also been affected by Coronavirus, they are all at home without working. Where are they going to get money to pay for their kid’s tuition?