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This session – which marks the return of what were known as the “heart attack meetings” -, according to a government source, “will be important” to agree on the measures to be adopted from the 15th of this month, when the Portuguese continent , to preventively enter a contingency situation.
This time 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, returned to join the party leaders. and social partners to hear from technicians and experts on the situation of the pandemic in Portugal.
Another novelty of the 11th session is the transmission, through the Government’s YouTube channel and in an open signal on televisions, of the exhibition part of the meeting, something that never happened in previous meetings, all closed.
Thus, in the first part of the meeting, the “current epidemiological situation” will be presented by Pedro Pinto Leite, from the General Health Directorate, and Baltazar Nunes, from the Dr. Ricardo Jorge National Institute of Health.
In the section on “updating information”, “the national serological survey” (Ana Paula Rodrigues, from the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge), “the case-control study” (Henrique Barros, Institute of Public Health of the Universidad do Porto), “APP Stayaway Covid” (José Manuel Mendonça, from the Institute of Systems Engineering and Informatics, Technology and Science, and Luís Goes Pinheiro, from the Shared Services of the Ministry of Health) and the “new vaccine” (Rui Santos Ivo, from Infarmed).
In the second part there will be a presentation by Maria João Brito, from the Dona Estefânia Hospital (Lisbon), on “covid-19 in children” and another on “a safe return to school: facing realities, minimizing risks, anticipating solutions” , with Carla Nunes, National School of Public Health, Manuel do Carmo Gomes, from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, and again from Henrique Barros.
This is followed by the debate and the closing period, which will not be broadcast.
