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The worsening of the figures of the covid-19 pandemic, which led to a reinforcement of restrictive measures to control the situation, and requests from political parties to know the interpretation of the reports of the General Directorate of Health (DGS) by the technicians when taking the appropriate measures, it led to the creation of a new meeting in Infarmed to analyze the epidemiological situation of covid-19 in Portugal. The meeting comes at a time when Portugal is facing a second wave of the pandemic that has led to a sharp increase in new Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations and patients in intensive care units.
A parliamentary source revealed to Jornal Economico that the call reached the political parties with a parliamentary seat on Wednesday, November 18, realizing that the return of these meetings “appears in a phase of worsening of the pandemic and the need for technical interpretation of the DGS data, required by the parties, to be able to take measures, as well as to evaluate the effect of the most restrictive measures taken in the last 14 days to assess the need for new measures or withdraw some that are in execution “.
It should be remembered here that the Government is preparing to create three levels of escalation in municipalities with Covid-19 cases, and to adjust restrictive measures according to the degree of risk. Thus, only municipalities with more than 960 new cases of Covid-19 (per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days) will be covered by measures such as those that are in force now from the curfew from 1:00 p.m. to the weekend .
Thus, the call for the meeting in Infarmed comes one day after the parties are heard by Marcelo de Rebelo in the new round of hearings in Belém on the renewal of the state of emergency for another 15 days. In the meeting with the President of the Republic it was pointed out that the current emergency period extends until next Monday the 23rd, and this week the President must propose a new decree to the Government, which will submit it to the Assembly for approval. . The idea is that from November 24 a new emergency period begins, which will be in force for another 15 days (until December 8).
This session – which marks the return of what became known as the “infamous meetings” – according to a parliamentary source, “will be important” to agree on the measures to be adopted as of November 23, when the Portuguese continent enters again. in a state of emergency that must be renewed at the beginning of the next one. The meeting arises, more than two months after the last meeting, held on September 7 in Porto, when the country was preparing to enter a contingency situation and restrictive measures had not yet been taken, such as mandatory withdrawal in municipalities. riskier. , the return of mandatory teleworking and other measures such as the mandatory use of a mask in the street and the prohibition of social gatherings, specifically the holding of celebrations and other events, for more than five people, unless they belong to the same household.
On this occasion at the Infarmed facilities in Lisbon, the Prime Minister, António Costa, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, and the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, once again join leaders and partners of the party. listen to technicians and experts on the situation of the pandemic in Portugal.
Portugal registered, in the last 24 hours, another 4,452 new cases (a variation of 1.97%) and 81 deaths (an increase of 2.33%) related to Covid-19. The data appear in the most recent DGS epidemiological bulletin, published this Tuesday, November 17. In total, 230,124 infections and 3,553 deaths have been recorded.
Currently, there are 3,028 people hospitalized (less 12), of which 431 are in Intensive Care Units (five more).
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