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State of “Emergency” for health but State of “Exception” for people: Guinea‐Bissau’s paradox in the battle against Covid‐19

State of “Emergency” for health but State of “Exception” for people: Guinea‐Bissau’s paradox in... City & Society State of “Emergency” for health but State of “Exception” for people: Guinea-Bissau’s paradox in the battle against Covid-19 Miguel de Barros, Centro de Estudos Sociais Amilcar Cabral – CESAC Anaxore Casimiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT-UNL) Aliu Soares Cassamá, CESAC Cadija Mané, CESAC Fatumata Jau, CESAC Rui Jorge Semedo, Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa-INEP © 2020 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12262 Bissau City, April of 2020, photo by Albano Barai Kuma di kurpu (how is your body)?... These are expressions in Guinea-Bissau’s Creole kriol language. Nowadays, beyond simple greetings, these expressions regain new meaning and symbolism. Far from mere strategies for communicating politeness or demonstration of zeal and reciprocity, they also denote an element of mistrust and worry and anxiety for the well-being of the community. In a country with scarce resources to test the population and no hospitalization of confirmed positive cases of covid-19 so far; expressions such as Kuma ku nô sta (how are we?) are of critical importance. The lack of access to health services is chronic due to underfunding. As a consequence, the national health coverage is in a critical state, estimated at about 35%, with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City & Society Wiley

State of “Emergency” for health but State of “Exception” for people: Guinea‐Bissau’s paradox in the battle against Covid‐19

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City & Society State of “Emergency” for health but State of “Exception” for people: Guinea-Bissau’s paradox in the battle against Covid-19 Miguel de Barros, Centro de Estudos Sociais Amilcar Cabral – CESAC Anaxore Casimiro, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (IHMT-UNL) Aliu Soares Cassamá, CESAC Cadija Mané, CESAC Fatumata Jau, CESAC Rui Jorge Semedo, Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa-INEP © 2020 by the American Anthropological Association. All rights reserved. DOI: 10.1111/ciso.12262 Bissau City, April of 2020, photo by Albano Barai Kuma di kurpu (how is your body)?... These are expressions in Guinea-Bissau’s Creole kriol language. Nowadays, beyond simple greetings, these expressions regain new meaning and symbolism. Far from mere strategies for communicating politeness or demonstration of zeal and reciprocity, they also denote an element of mistrust and worry and anxiety for the well-being of the community. In a country with scarce resources to test the population and no hospitalization of confirmed positive cases of covid-19 so far; expressions such as Kuma ku nô sta (how are we?) are of critical importance. The lack of access to health services is chronic due to underfunding. As a consequence, the national health coverage is in a critical state, estimated at about 35%, with

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Published: Apr 1, 2020

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