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The prime minister said today that Portugal is following the European trend of increasing infections with the new coronavirus and that, if this evolution continues, it could reach a thousand daily cases of covid-19 next week.
This position was transmitted by António Costa at the end of the meeting of the crisis office on the evolution of covid-19, in Portugal, in São Bento, which lasted about two hours.
“If this trend continues, we will reach 1,000 new cases a day. We have to stop this trend. We cannot stop the country,” the prime minister said at the press conference.
In his initial statement, the executive president considered that the country “is experiencing a strong daily growth of new cases,” a trend that began to be recorded in mid-August.
Therefore, according to António Costa, “the pandemic cannot be allowed to continue growing.”
“Now, we will not be able to stop the country again, as it happened in March. Now, the control of the pandemic depends on the personal responsibility of each one of us. We cannot again deprive children of access to school, we cannot once again prohibiting families from visiting their loved ones at home, we cannot separate families at Christmas as we did at Easter. We really have to stop the pandemic on our own responsibility, “he emphasized.
In the period of questions from journalists, the Prime Minister de-dramatized the current situation of the National Health Service (SNS), that is, in terms of responsiveness to patients with covid-19.
“Fortunately, the pressure on the NHS remains limited. In fact, current figures show a decline in hospitalized patients, both in intensive care and in general hospitalizations. Fortunately, we are not in a situation where there is no control in the NHS. But the incubation periods are long, “he said.
From the crisis office to monitor the evolution of covid-19, which had met for the last time on June 29, members of the Government are included, as well as the Ministers of State for the Economy and Foreign Relations – Augusto Santos Silva was not there Present today and was represented by the Secretary of State Eurico Brilhante Dias – of the Presidency and Finance, as well as the holders of the National Defense, Internal Administration, Labor, Solidarity and Social Security, Education, Health and Infrastructure and Accommodation portfolios.
