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Two strains of ‘highly pathogenic’ bird flu have broken out in two Chinese provinces near Hubei – the epicentre of the novel coronavirus – since the beginning of the month.
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A post to be read from Dr. Jorge Sales Marques, Director of Pediatrics at Conde S. Januário Hospital Center, Macau. 🇲🇴
What we learned until now about Covid-19?
Covid-19 was first reported to WHO on 31/12/2020 .
This new coronavirus has 80 % of its genetic sequence similar to SARS coronavirus.
The transmission is by droplets of saliva, human to human.
The incubation period can be from 2 to 14 days with the pick around 5 th day.
Adults with more than 55 years and with chronic diseases and with deficiency of his imune system are more sensitive to get Covid-19.
Why the virus affected less children under 10
years of age (less than 0.1 %)?
The frequent stimulation of the imune system by early vaccinations in the first 18 months of age, followed by vaccine booster at 5-6 y and 10-13 y and frequent virus infections during the infancy and later in the kindergarten and schools, can be responsible for this surprising situation.
On the other hand, we know that we have 4 coronavirus that affect humans with low to moderate respiratory symptoms like common cold and can be responsible for 10-25 % of all upper respiratory tract infection.
All these reasons can stimulate the immune memory and help the younger people to response better for the new virus infection.
In adults they also have virus infections and do vaccines but their immune memory is not the same.
The Covid-19 symptoms are like flu, with cough and running nose in 80 % of cases, diarrhea in 4 % and respiratory distress, pneumonia.
Some cases can let the patient in critical respiratory failure and even dead.
The mortality is around 2.5 %, lower that SARS dead cases that was 9.4%.
But the risk of contagious is higher!
So far more than 100 000 cases (SARS around 8000) affecting already 100 countries!
What is recommended?
There are 4 things that any one in any country can do!
1 – use mask correctly
2 – wash your hands during at least 20 seconds and repeat many times a day
3 – avoid overcrowded places
4 – keep at home as must as you can
What happened in Macau?
What we did?
The people of Macau strictly fulfilled the recommendations from the Health Bureau and the government.
The people used mask in everyplace they need to go, including work, public transport and streets.
They washed their hands with water and soap or alcohol gel.
They keep at home.
They avoid going to places with many people.
They followed all recommendations with total complicity between them and the government and Heath Bureau!
During this time of coronavirus crisis, we saw streets almost empty, shoppings, private clinics, gyms, some hotels and even casinos closed.
We closed all schools, from primary to universities and the students are doing e-school’s until all is considered under control.
We checked the temperature of anyone that came outside Macau and also in any place in Macau.
In hospital, we stop consultations and we did by phone or video.
We stop patients visiting.
We restricted people coming from outside and stop visitors from risks areas, we did and keep doing tests for people with risk of contagious.
For those that was infected or have contacted people with Covid-19, we put on quarantine.
We protect our Macau citizens and also help to diagnose people (tourist or not) that want to enter Macau for visiting, shopping, gambling or only tasting our excellent food.
Macau with this total cooperation between government, Health Bureau and his citizens is the best example for all over the world!
We don’t have new cases for one month and our all 10 cases that were affected, all are discharged!
With all respect for all countries that are affected and their health bureau program against Covid-19, they need to take the same measures we did.
To stop spreading the coronavirus in their own countries or to others cities or countries, the only way is convinced their citizens that this is a serious disease.
Them, recommend the citizens the 4 main thinks they need to follow, support the health professionals not only with mask, gloves and special clothes but also practical flow chart with constant update.
And finally, but also crucial for the success, each government need to have courage to take difficult measures.
This fight against Covid-19 is not only a Macau fight.
All cities, countries and WHO need to join together forces to win this war against this new coronavirus.
And learn from others cities or countries, what they did to stop virus spreading.
If the results are good, we need to learn and why not ask people with more experiences or better results for an opinion, suggestions or help.
This is a global fight with only one enemy – Covid-19!
Join the forces please!
(da página do Facebook de Jorge Sales Marques).
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São factos que fazem parte da História de Timor.
1 Year AgoCONTINUANDO…
Parece provável que o primeiro porto, na ilha de Timor, a lograr as atenções dos Dominicanos, terá sido Mena —que era, àquela data, a sede de um dos mais poderosos reinos, fonte do melhor sândalo e quem controlava a exportação do mesmo. Situado na parte central norte da ilha (Lifau— Oé-Cusse), e onde, por volta de 1590, um tal Frei Belchior da Luz, terá desembarcado, terá sido bem recebido pelo rei (ou rajá) local, e ali terá permanecido cerca de seis meses e construído uma igreja — a primeira, naquela zona. Embora ele não se tenha convertido, ofereceu, ainda assim, uma filha à fé cristã. No entanto, por volta de 1616, dar-se-ia o início da evangelização, ainda muito mais acentuada em 1630, com a chegada de alguns missionários, provenientes de Larantuca (Solor tinha passado, é certo que temporariamente, em 1613, para as mãos holandesas). Ter-se-á devido a Frei Cristovão Rangel o estabelecimento definitivo dos dominicanos, o qual, em 1633, fixou morada no reino do Silabão, no extremo noroeste da província dos Belos. Larantuca era o Porto das Flores centro da governação portuguesa, se bem que nunca se soubesse, ao certo, quem ali governava, de tal modo proliferavam os candidatos à chefia da Capitania, especialmente com a implantação no lugar de dois aventureiros euro-asiáticos, os ‘topasse’ António d’Hornay e Mateus da Costa.
Contudo, mesmo assim, só alguns anos mais tarde (a partir de Junho de 1641), Mena passou a ser inteiramente cristã, quando um frade dominicano, vigário-geral de Solor — António de São Jacinto — correu em seu socorro, com 70 soldados, devido a uma invasão muçulmana, proveniente de Makassar, nas Celebes. Incursão essa que foi frustrada, não obstante a enormidade dos meios que o invasor possuía, quer em navios (cerca de 150 barcos, à vela, denominados ‘parais’) e em homens (à volta de 7.000), e ainda terem tentado levantar os nativos contra os portugueses, tentativa frustrada, sem sucesso. Conquanto tivesse havido bastante destruição, e o rei tivesse sido morto, a viúva assumira-se como rainha, fugira para o interior, mas o padre dominicano conseguiu contactá-la, conquistar a sua confiança e, tendo ela, ao acabar por regressar ao seu reino, se ter convertido, e o seu povo seguiu-lhe o exemplo.
Diz-se, não haver qualquer dúvida, que a evangelização deste frade, marca o estabelecimento definitivo da Igreja em Timor. Para além disso, os reinos, ao abraçarem a fé cristã, juravam também lealdade à Coroa de Portugal.
É também hipótese que, por esta altura, os portugueses começaram a referir-se a Timor como “Ilha de Santa Cruz — nome que não deve ter pegado, como tantos outros que, posteriormente, os portugueses baptizaram várias localidades.
Porém, em 1642 —no mesmo ano em que caiu Malaca, tomada pelos holandeses, que havia cerca de nove anos a sitiavam —, deve ter sido pela vitória dos portugueses, comandados por Francisco Fernandes (capitão-mor das ilhas atrás referidas, ‘topasse ou topaz’, natural de Solor), sobre o reino de Wehale (ou Uai-Hali), situado na costa sul (onde vivia o imperador dos Belos — então rebelados), numa operação que pode ser considerada como “o primeiro acto da conquista armada de Timor “, o que levou, não só à conversão de numerosos régulos e do seu povo —pois a notícia, da derrota do poderoso potentado dos Belos, espalhou-se rapidamente —como, igualmente, à destruição daquela, até então, entidade política, praticamente unida, quer por relações familiares quer por amplas alianças, de tal modo que quase se poderia considerar um Estado.CONTINUAREI…
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