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THE Epidemiologist Baltazar Nunes, from the Ricardo Jorge Institute, said this Tuesday, in an interview with the SIG Polygraph program, that Portugal could reach 4 thousand new daily cases of COVID-19-19 in the next few days.
And more. According to the expert, this number may even double, if the measures implemented now are not “sufficiently effective”.
“Right now we have a doubling time of the disease of about 10 days, that is, if today we have 2,000 cases, in the next 10 days we can have about 4,000. Projections very close to those made very recently by the Faculty of Sciences, identifying that, at the beginning November, we could have numbers around those. But the situation is that of those 4 thousand we can go to 8 thousand if the measures that are being implemented, at this moment, are not enough effective to reduce transmission “, he warned, adding that this growth reflects the behavior of the population.
As for the number of hospitalizations, although it is increasing, approaching the levels of the beginning of the year, the specialist assures that it is not yet a case of alarm.
“The growth it is experiencing is undesirable. Now, if the same measures that were implemented at that time are justified, it is something that must be decided with more information, with the doctors on the ground ”.He explained.
In conclusion, the epidemiologist reiterated that the behavior and measures of people adopted The health authorities will be fundamental in deciding the future of the coming weeks.
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