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The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, admitted that the scenario for the coming months will be complex, crossing several variables in the increase in the contagion of Covid-19 cases, namely, back to school and seasonal flu.
“Today Portugal is better prepared to face the next phase,” Marta Temido began by saying at the start of the Infarmed meeting, which takes place this Monday afternoon in Porto.
The Minister of Health warned that “as in all of Europe, we are facing a complex context”, by listing “back to school, seasonal flu, the usual increase in mortality in the winter months, especially in the elderly, responding to all other assistance needs, the financial difficulty of a possible support from a new emergency shutdown“.
“We have to be very aware of the context that surrounds us and with the knowledge to face it,” he stressed, before explaining the program of the session divided into two parts. The presentations of the first part will focus on an analysis of the current epidemiological situation, presented by the technical services of the Ministry of Health, DGS and the Ricardo Jorge Institute, as well as an update of information “to understand the work developed in the last 60 days “And” a status of the eventual acquisition of the vaccine. ” The second part, on the other hand, will focus mainly on the theme of back to school.
In the auditorium of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, the Prime Minister, António Costa, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, as well as representatives of the main parties and social partners. technicians and experts in the evolution of the pandemic.
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