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The mayor of Guimarães, Domingos Bragança, admitted on Monday that the representation of a show in the municipality with about a thousand people “gave a signal that contradicts all the recent discourse” of the municipality in relation to covid-19.
Quoted in a statement, Domingos Bragança added that the entire communication effort of the municipality to prevent covid-19 “cannot be compromised by cultural or other events, which can bring together a large number of people.”
Speaking at the end of the executive meeting, the mayor thus justified the decision, announced on Sunday, to suspend the holding of cultural events in the municipality’s facilities until the Civil Protection meeting, which will take place on Tuesday.
“I want to listen to the health delegates on the subject, as well as those responsible for the other entities, since the situation we are experiencing in the municipality of Guimarães may require the adoption of more restrictive measures,” he said.
On Friday night, a show at Multiusos de Guimarães with comedians Hugo Sousa, Ana García Martins (Pipoca mais Doce) and Nilton. According to the municipality, it brought together 964 people, which corresponds to 40 percent of the space’s capacity.
Thus, according to the municipality, the contingency plan approved by the health authorities was complied with.
The show was promoted by “Tempo Livre”, a cooperative region with 65 members, with the City Council as the main shareholder.
On Sunday, and “before news and images” about the show, which it suggested despite the health safety regulations associated with covid-19, the Chamber determined the temporary suspension of the shows scheduled for all the cultural facilities of the municipality.
“More than complying with the rules, the perception of less stringent requirements in the protection rules against the pandemic that we transmit to all our citizens is at stake,” Domingos Bragança explained today.
The statement recalls that the mayor’s position in the face of the increase in covid-19 cases in the municipality “has been of the utmost prudence”, as is the example of the council on the use of a mask in public space, a measure that, until At the moment, it has not been adopted by the Board. -General health.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed more than one million seventy-seven thousand deaths and more than 37.5 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,094 people died out of 87,913 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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