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In a statement published on the website of the Presidency of the Republic, it is read that “after listening to the Government, which had proposed it and issued a favorable decision at the end of the morning, The President of the Republic has just sent to the Assembly of the Republic, for authorization, the draft diploma that decrees the state of emergency for 15 days, from November 9 to 23, which allows the Government to take certain measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic “.
These measures include the “possibility for the Government to impose restrictions on movement in certain places at certain times, particularly in the municipalities with the highest risk; the use, if necessary and preferably by agreement, of the health facilities of the private, social and cooperative sector, with due compensation; the mobilization of workers, as well as of the Armed and Security Forces, to strengthen health authorities in epidemiological and detection surveys; and the possibility of measuring body temperature by non-invasive means and imposing tests on access to certain services and equipment ”.
In the decree of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa says that “The evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the lessons learned, justify the reinforcement of the guarantees of legal certainty of the measures adopted or to be adopted by the competent authorities for the corresponding prevention and response, in areas such as the call for resources human resources for screening, control of people’s health, freedom of movement and use of private and social or cooperative resources “.
The President of the Republic also says that “this reinforced guarantee requires the declaration of a state of emergency of very limited scope and with mainly preventive effects.”
