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The president of the Porto Metropolitan Area (AMP), Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues, defended this Wednesday that the Government must decree, without further delay, a state of emergency so that there is a “legal-legal framework” for other measures, namely, collecting required.
The mayor of Gaia also considers that “the evolution of the numbers is starting to get painful enough“So that the Government does not raise the alert level due to a state of emergency. Even because, justified,”the curfew “-which is one of the measures that the mayor admits-” only makes sense, from the juridical-legal point of view, in an emergency“I think that should be the starting point,” he stressed.
Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues also guaranteed that the mayors of the North are not asking for more strategies to combat the spread of covid-19 to “show service”, but “to help health professionals who, in a few days, will be collapsed and saturated “. . “The mayors want articulated measures and are asking the Government before it is too late“, he is stressed.
After raising the alert level in the country, the curfew would be, for the president of the AMP, a good option. “I recognize that a curfew, starting at 11 pm or midnight and during the night, would be important to put an end to the gatherings of young people after dinner, a little for all the counties, and that they have consequences that are not good .“, he is stressed.
Other important measures, he added, would include “asking our companies to help us with what was requested two months ago: the schedules interspersed at the entrance to avoid the saturation of public transport, and asking high schools and universities 15 days, focused exclusively on digital education “.
Regarding the request that the mayor of Matosinhos made this Tuesday to the Government -for the prohibition of circulation with neighboring provinces and the closure of 3rd Cycle, Secondary and Professional schools- Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues defended that it was “a stoned in the pond “.
“And we have to assume that this stone in the pool has to be collective. We all speak in isolation and what the Government must realize is that mayors speak because they are on the ground, very close to reality“he stated.
Eduardo Vítor Rodrigues also recognized the existence of a problem in the way that the General Directorate of Health (DGS) communicates epidemiological data to the country, highlighting that, “at this moment, no one listens to the DGS press conferences, especially when we have contradictions in a speech ”.
“We are talking about the state of emergency the day after we had an audience in a soccer stadium and the same weekend we had 30,000 people in Portimão watching a race. Either there is a preventive, coherent and awareness-raising communication strategy, or this overload of press conferences is generating is a lightening of the message“he lamented.
For the mayor, the daily online publication of the newsletter and a weekly meeting with journalists to take stock “would be ideal.” “The DGS itself says that the daily figures, from an analysis point of view, mean very little. We are saturated with a lot of discourse and not so coherent action“, Held.
Regarding the specific epidemiological situation of Vila Nova de Gaia, which is the third largest municipality in the country, being the seventh most infected, Vítor Rodrigues stressed that the most important thing “is the trends.” “And I know that we have the hospital and the health centers under great pressure. It is time to move on to the next stage, the state of emergency.“He concluded.
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