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The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, said this Friday, in the usual press conference, which follows the publication of the bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) that “We are going through the second wave of pandemic growth”.
At the opening of the conference, the minister began by referring to the number of infections registered by Portugal in the last 24 hours – a total of 6,653 cases – and affirmed that the North continues to be the most affected region. “and where there is more pressure.”
Marta Temido also revealed that RT, the risk of disease transmission, seems “slow down a bit” – now at 1.11 – but warns that we must not lower our guard and that this is a value “which should be read very carefully, because it is a very small variation”.
It will take time, it will take weeks after we reach the peak of the disease to feel a decrease in demand from hospitals and more weeks to feel a decrease in what is fatality “, explained.
Therefore, the minister warns, “It would be irresponsible to stop efforts to combat the pandemic.”
The government increases the price per covid patient
The Government increased the price per patient with covid-19 that it pays to individuals, from 1,962 euros a day to 2,495 euros, with the aim of “Make the conventions more attractive for providers and thus improve the difficulty of having answers for covid patients”explained the Minister of Health.
The guardian also explained that, “in April, there was no case of covid, there was still no history of Covid-19 patients and a price was established by approximation”, but now, with eight months of history, “it was based on this experience that adjustments were made” in the price.
The minister added that there are already, in the North, “A set of effective responses in foundations and the social sector.”
The Fernando Pessoa Education and Culture Foundation has already provided 45 beds for Covid patients, the Hospital das Forças Armadas has 40 beds for covid patients and the CUF Porto Hospital has made eight beds available to the ARS del Norte “, which makes a total of 93 beds.
“No one should be considered safe”
Of the 3,250 deaths registered by covid-19 so far, 1,090 occurred in people whose home was a residential structure for the elderly, the Minister of Health also revealed.
Hence the great concern that we continue to have with these residential structures and the incidence of the disease in people over 80 years of age. And I would like to emphasize that this is one of the concerns that we maintain and to which we all have to contribute ”, he said.
Despite the number of deaths in the older age groups, the minister emphasizes that we must all avoid the disease and contribute so that it does not spread.
I would like to emphasize that no one should consider themselves safe from disease because if it is true that disease in younger and relatively healthy people is usually a mild disease with no immediate major health consequences, we do not know what the consequences are. medium and long term contracting of covid “, concluded Marta Temido.
See also:
COVID-19: ALMOST 9,000 HEALTH PROFESSIONALS HAVE BEEN INFECTED IN PORTUGAL
FLU: THE GOVERNMENT ESTIMATES THAT 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY BEEN VACCINATED
