The floods caused by heavy rains in southern Bahia in recent weeks have generated an increase in cases of diarrhea and viruses in Teixeira de Freitas (BA), Mayor Marcelo Belitardo (DEM) told CNN this Tuesday (28).
Despite this, Belitardo said that the cases of virus are not Covid-19, according to tests carried out at health posts, but a syndrome with “common flu-like symptoms” that has left the “health system relatively overloaded “, he said.
“We are having many cases of diarrhea due to water contamination, and we are having an outbreak of a non-coronavirus virus, it is a virus outbreak with common flu-like symptoms”, he declared, denying that at the moment there is an outbreak of leptospirosis in the region – another common disease arising from contact with water from floods and floods.
While the city is already recovering from the major damage caused for at least two weeks and is experiencing a different situation from other municipalities, which are still isolated, Belitardo said that the time is to carry out the “survey and quantify what damage was caused”.
“We came out of a phase of immediate risk to physical integrity and now we are in a phase of helping to rebuild public roads and structures for family homes,” he said. However, the mayor stated that “the municipality cannot bear all the immediate damage”.
The large volume of rain that hits the Bahia it has already killed 20 people and left more than 31.4 thousand homeless, 31,300 homeless, in addition to 358 injured.
This Tuesday, the governor of the state, Rui Costa (PT), said that the government plans to create financial aid to help families affected by what he called the “greatest natural disaster in the history of Bahia”.
Reference: CNN Brasil
