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The General Health Directorate published on Monday the change that it had promised on Friday, according to which children and young people who enter institutions are no longer subject to prophylactic isolation due to the covid-19 pandemic.
“Through this guide, the mandatory tests and prophylactic isolation measures are no longer applied in any institution where self-employed residents carry out daily activities outside the institution, without prejudice to a clinical evaluation on the admission of new residents. / users, ”he announced. this Monday the DGS, in a statement, shortly after publishing the new guide on its website.
The DGS states that for the Institutions of Attention to Children and Youth in Situation of Danger and Homes for Children and Youth, the admission measures for new residents / users are adapted, “in order to safeguard the psychological well-being of children and young people, “the procedures for conducting laboratory tests for SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes covid-19 disease, and for prophylactic isolation,” without prejudice to a clinical evaluation. when new income is applied.
On Friday, the general director of Health, Graças Freitas, said that children who arrive at the reception centers will no longer be forced to prophylactic isolation.
“Given that, with the start of classes, the community these children go to is a community open to the outside, the children will be exempt from being in any type of quarantine,” said Graça Freitas during the usual press conference on the covid-19 pandemic in Portugal.
The current rule stipulated that children separated from their families had to complete 14 days of isolation when they arrived at the reception centers, even if the COVID-19 test was negative.
Graça Freitas, who had already considered that the decision to isolate a child who had just arrived in an institution was “very difficult”, then affirmed that the measure no longer makes sense when children can come and go daily to go to school.
The next academic year begins between September 14 and 17, with the resumption of classroom activities suspended in mid-March due to the covid-19 pandemic.
The covid-19 pandemic has already caused at least 889,498 deaths and infected more than 27.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,843 people died of the 60,507 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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