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The prime minister appealed this Saturday to stay at home this weekend and next, considering it essential to stop the “serious” growth of covid-19, and defended that the restrictive measures that are now being taken are a “lesser evil.”
This weekend will be very different, we will have to stay home in the afternoon and at night. It will be very difficult for everyone who wants to freely do whatever they want “says António Costa in a video message, in which he seeks to explain why the Government has taken curfew measures in the municipalities most affected by covid-19.
António Costa acknowledges that this and next weekend will be “very hard for many economic, restaurant and commercial activities, which will have great losses.”
But there are three fundamental reasons why we should go the extra mile. The first is that the pandemic situation is really very serious. If we remember what the situation was in the first wave of the pandemic, the maximum number of cases was 1516, but only yesterday [sexta-feira] we had 6653 new cases, four times more than in the first phase, which means that we really have to stop the growth of this pandemic “, stressed the prime minister.
The second reason that justifies the measures now adopted, according to António Costa, is that the Government wants to avoid confinements such as that of the first wave of the pandemic, in March and April, when “it was necessary to close most of the economic activities and close schools “, with most people” locked at home “.
We were able to stop the pandemic, but we also remember the enormous cost it had in terms of mental, emotional, social and economic health. Thousands of jobs were destroyed and an immense loss of income by families and even many activities were closed forever. Now we have to avoid this “, he warned.
Therefore, according to the Prime Minister, the Government has now opted for “the lesser evil”.
And the lesser evil is to concentrate this effort on these weekends to try to preserve the continuity of normal life during the week, without interrupting the school year again and without interrupting most of the economic activities ”., justified.
António Costa also invoked “a third fundamental reason” for the Government to have taken restrictive measures to the circulation and the generality of the commercial activity.
It is that we have to give all our support to health professionals, doctors, nurses, operational assistants, diagnostic technicians, those who are currently in hospitals or health centers to make an immense effort to treat patients, to accompany them . if they are home confined to surveillance, to conduct epidemiological investigations to block the chains of transmission. It is a lot of work they are doing and we can help them by preventing more sick people from having to be treated “he added.
