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“My expectation, in June and July, I do not hide it, it was that we would arrive now [no início de setembro] with 100 cases or less a day, ”he said, on the sidelines of a visit to the town of Castro Marim, within the framework of the cycle of trips to all the Algarve municipalities.
The president considered that “the situation is controlled and stable, in the good sense of the term, in terms of hospitalizations and intensive care”, but that he expected “a downward trend, tending to gradually decrease” in the global number of cases.
“Unfortunately, that’s not what happened. We are, on some days of the week, with ups and downs: on weekends, [os números] they are low -between Saturday and Monday- and during the week they are much higher ”, he added.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa assured that he is not worried and pointed out that the Government “is the one that says it is worried.”
“There are several statements by members of the Government who say that there is some concern or that the situation is serious. When the Government, a few weeks in advance, admits to entering a state of contingency, it is not because it is carefree, but it did not announce the state of contingency. Prevention is better than cure. Only those who think there may be a risk of acting like this are that, “he said.
The President of the Republic recalled that the return of the meetings on the evolution of the covid-19 is scheduled for Monday in Porto, with the presence of all political parties with parliamentary seats.
I hope that this session will also be useful for this, so that all political parties understand why the Government, in advance, in a preventive manner, said that it intended, in a few weeks, to resort to a state of contingency. I hope that this session, in addition to clarifying the Portuguese in the open part, clarifies the political parties with seats in the Assembly of the Republic ”, he stressed.
Asked about the presence of the public in the stadiums, a claim claimed by the Portuguese Professional Football League in recent weeks, the head of state said that “the definition of the rules and the monitoring of the evolution of the situation are at stake.” and that the management of the pandemic involves “a balance between defending life and health and not killing the economy or society.”
“This is a balance between dramatizing a lot and dramatizing totally. Total dramatization and total dramatization. It’s a balance. In this balance, the definition of health rules comes into play. When defining a health rule, the risk it poses to life and health is taken into account, but the example given and how it is read is also taken into account. The intention can be very good and the reading can be completely different, ”he said.
Exemplifying with the different rules between the Book Fair, shows, schools and establishments, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa argued that “the set-up is complicated” because public opinion expects “equal rules for all situations.”
“This weighting is a weighting that experts have to do. But then, and that is why ‘I press the key a lot’, it is necessary to explain to people to understand why in one case it is a meter, in another it is two meters and another eight meters. If there is no explanation, part of the Portuguese dramatizes and another part dramatizes completely, “he concluded.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 869,718 deaths and infected more than 26.3 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,833 people died of the 59,457 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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