LDS calls for solidarity and support in facing threat of COVID-19 |16 March 2020
Linyon Demokratik Seselwa (LDS) has expressed its solidarity with and support for the health professionals leading the country鈥檚 response to the threat of COVID-19 and is encouraging everyone to join together with them to face this challenge.
This comes after two positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Saturday March 14, 2020 following tests conducted on two individuals in the quarantine facilities in Perseverance.
In a communiqu茅 released yesterday afternoon, the LDS writes:
鈥淭his is a public health emergency of unprecedented proportion and we understand the magnitude of the risks that it poses and the measures that will be required to deal with it.
鈥淚t is a very difficult time for the nation and we can only face it with a unified and concerted effort under the leadership of the professionals who are best equipped to make the right judgement on the courses of action that we must take.
鈥淎s individuals, it is our duty to cooperate fully with the measures and the advice that will minimise the risk of a spread of the disease.
鈥淲e express our support also for all those whose duties may place them at closest risk of contact with sources of the coronavirus, especially our health workers, immigration and airport staff and workers in services involving public contact.
鈥淎t the same time we express our sympathy with those persons who have tested positive and with those who are under monitoring for the disease. We wish them a speedy recovery or clearance, as the case may be.
鈥淭his is a situation that will test us as a nation and it calls for our best in understanding, compassion and solidarity. It is a battle that we must fight together to win.鈥�
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LDS communique