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Graça Freitas, general director of Health, said that the implementation of Sporting-Gil Vicente is being analyzed.
The General Directorate of Health (DGS) confirmed on Wednesday that the Sporting-Gil Vicente match, from the first day of the I League, is still under analysis, given the various cases of covid-19 in both teams.
“My teammates from Gil Vicente and Sporting are doing everything possible to see if there are conditions for the game to develop. If it happens, it will always be a postponement of the game and never the stoppage of the I League. The remaining games will take place.” a complex issue, given the high number of infections in both teams, “said the general director of Health, Graça Freitas.
At the usual press conference to update the covid-19 numbers in Portugal, Graça Freitas recalled that, “after last year’s recovery plan” it was outlined by DGS, Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), League of clubs and clubs “, currently” the conditions [para realização dos jogos] they are evaluated “by local health authorities.
“Now that we have gone to another level, with a more extensive sporting activity, the conditions are evaluated by the local health authority. However, when there are doubts, the local health authority can always meet with the regional authority and the regional one can meet with the national one ”, said the head of DGS.
Still on the potential infections within the teams, Graça Freitas developed the explanation: “We are talking about outbreaks. Within a team, which includes the technical team, players and personnel, we will have people divided into several groups: the infected, who will not be able to play Others who are in prophylactic isolation because they were high-risk contacts, and the rest of the staff, who were not high-risk contacts, continue to lead their normal lives. “
Faced with a possible reduction from 14 to 10 days of the quarantine period to which team members must be subject, as is the case in France and as suggested by the League of Clubs, Graça Freitas responded in a comprehensive manner, without ever indicating the soccer.
“The 10 days [de isolamento] they are more or less consensual for positive people. During this period, it is easier to follow the path of someone who has tested positive, than that of a person who is only in contact with a positive person, who may be asymptomatic and who may be positive or negative. Even the French have shortened that period to seven days for patients. In patients’ contacts, they carry out the test on the seventh day, but if it is negative, they only release the person from isolation on the tenth day ”, he explained.
In this way, “DGS and its experts in infectious diseases are attentive to the days that pass between the eventual contagion and the end, to see if it is possible to shorten the quarantine period”, said Graça Freitas, leaving a certainty: “They are decisions complex and we have to carry them safely. “
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 936,095 deaths and more than 29.6 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,878 people died from 65,626 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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