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The Government rules out a return to the past, in which the country stopped. The almost door-to-door knowledge of the current epidemiological situation can lead health authorities to opt for local confinements, as is the case, for example, in some neighborhoods of the Spanish capital.
In March, the country closed with fear of covid-19, leaning towards the unknown. “We were at a stage in which, in some way, we could support, even from a social and psychological point of view, more restrictive measures,” recalled the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, ruling out going back to that time with doors and closed streets. empty.
“We have already realized that the confinement is less effective than in the past,” added the minister, in an interview with RTP’s “Telejornal” on Monday night. “Today all countries are trying to move away from that line, regardless of whether there are surgical measures at the local level”, such as those adopted in Spain.
The Community of Madrid has decided, since Monday, to restrict the freedom of movement to more than 850 thousand people, 13% of the total population, in the areas of the city where there was a large increase in COVID-19 infections. The affected population can leave the neighborhood to go to work, to the doctor or to take their children to school, and the number of people who can meet is reduced from 10 to 6.
On the day the Health Plan for the autumn-winter 2020-21 was presented, the Minister of Health highlighted the relevance of the epidemiological risk map, which appears in the document prepared by the DGS. “This is very important. In some regions of the country, we have already been able to say what the risk is almost door to door. This allows a more incisive and effective action by public health, social security, security forces,” he explained. .
One more reason for the optimism of the minister. “We face this phase with confidence. We have more means, more human and technical resources, more organization and more knowledge, ”said Marta Temida.
“Currently we have 700 more fans than we had in March,” said the minister, who also reported the increase in testing capacity, defended as one of the important vectors of the Health Plan for the autumn-winter of 2020-21. “In terms of laboratory capacity, we were doing about 3,000 tests per day in March and now we are doing 23,000 tests per day,” he said.
The NHS has 21 thousand hospital beds, seven thousand in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region “Of the 500 beds that the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Region has maintained -in quotation marks- in this phase of response to covid, 300 they are currently occupied, “said the minister. “There are 300 of the 500 that are part of the seven thousand,” he stressed, referring that the advantage of the SNS “is to work in a network” and that if necessary, it can mobilize more beds, even private ones.
Even in this interview, Marta Temido acknowledged that the SNS 24 Health Line does not always answer the phone, and admitted that this is largely due to a problem with the telephone networks. “We are trying to resolve, to invest in technological modernization,” he said, highlighting that “the strengthening of telephone lines and service capacity is being carried out.”
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