Men at work ... Construction sites
Time is
passing. Schools have now been closed
for over a month, and the situation here is slowly getting worse. To date,
there are 114 coronavirus cases in Central Africa. The government, or at least
a part, is making a serious attempt, with help from international aid, to
identify and follow up positive cases and test others who could also have been
infected.
Movements
between the border with Cameroon and the capital, Bangui, have decreased
somewhat, but there are very few controls. This morning, Thursday 7 May, I left
Baoro at 5, and along the 400 km of road I was never checked by any of the
dozen of checkpoints scattered along the road.
The schools
remain closed, but with the radio broadcasts we try to continue, at least in
part, the daily lessons.
The
situation is already difficult in Bangui, where a covid-19 department for 13
people had been set up. In a hurry another is being prepared. But in the rest
of the country there is still nothing.
Yesterday,
Wednesday, I went to Bouar, where we had a meeting with the Bishop, Sr Marie
Thérèse (head of the diocesan Pharmacy) and the doctors Bertocchi and Fr
Titian. Waiting for the answers to the various funding applications that we
have launched, like Caritas we are preparing our hospitals and health centers
with the purchase of protective material, therapy and medicine.
It's a big
construction site ... and we'll do everything we can.
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