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António Costa said, this Monday, that the Covid-19 situation in the country is serious and that there is no forecast of when we will reach the peak of the second wave.
“There is no concrete prediction about the peak of the second wave. No epidemiologist has this prediction. One thing is certain: the situation is serious” and the pandemic is in an ascending phase, the prime minister said in an interview tonight with TVI. . .
Asked about the possibility of a new confinement in the country, Costa said that the country no longer has the possibility of using the “great weapon to contain the pandemic, which was general confinement. A new general confinement is unthinkable.” For Costa, the country depends on individual behaviors. That is why we have presented a proposal in Parliament with debatable measures ”.
Pressured by issues related to the confinement and measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Costa ended up stating that he cannot exclude “any measure”, but the social cost of confinement or partial confinement is “immense.” “Such a measure [confinamento] it would be brutal. These measures have a brutal social cost for the people. ”“ At Easter we prohibit movement between municipalities. Being deprived of circulation at Christmas would be terrible, “he stressed.
Regarding the possibility of the National Health Service resisting the impact of the disease, the Prime Minister revealed that there are 500 intensive care beds reserved for Covid-19, which “can grow to 700”.
On the joint project of mandatory use of masks in public space and the mandatory installation of the StayAway Covid application, the prime minister revealed that he asked “the president [da Assembleia da República] to reprogram the Government’s proposal, because the PSD presented a bill only in masks. The use of the mask was strangely consensual [entre as bancadas parlamentares]. The government would not be responsible for the evolution of the pandemic, if it did not raise this issue with the RA ”.
All Civil Protection agents, such as firefighters, can be used to help detect infected people and their contacts, which is essential to control the pandemic.
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