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This diploma modifies the state of exception currently in force, with new rules that apply in the last two days of that previous decree, which ends at 23:59 on Friday, and renews it for another fifteen days, from 00:00 hours Saturday 16. January, until 11:59 p.m. on the 30th of this month.
The PS and PSD have voted in favor of all declarations of the state of emergency and on Monday they expressed their support for the renewal of this legal framework, to allow stricter measures to contain Covid-19 in Portugal. The CDS-PP announced that it will also vote in favor.
Among the novelties included in the draft decree of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, are the possibility of measures to control prices and limit the rates and service commissions charged by home delivery platforms and restrictions on international circulation, with the imposition of diagnostic tests for the new coronavirus or compulsory confinement to enter the country.
This new diploma safeguards the free movement of citizens to exercise their vote in the presidential elections and establishes that older people who reside in homes must be considered in compulsory confinement in order to vote there.
The government approves containment measures
The meeting of the Council of Ministers will take place after the Assembly of the Republic debated and voted this morning on the draft presidential decree that modifies and renews the state of emergency.
On Tuesday, at the end of another meeting with epidemiologists at Infarmed, in Lisbon, the prime minister classified it as “alarming“the dynamics of”very strong growth“of new cases of novel coronavirus infection, which reached 10,000 a day earlier this week.
“Given the growing trend of the pandemic, it is essential to adopt measures. These measures must have a horizon of one month and with a profile very similar to the one we adopted at the beginning of the pandemic, that is, in the period between March and April” , stressed the leader of the executive.
Regarding the measures to be imposed by the Government, It is almost certain that catering and commerce in general will close again -the exception will be the food sector-, as happened in the first confinement, but the question remains whether, in the educational sector, face-to-face classes will continue in the third cycle and in secondary education.
Asked about the economic and financial consequences of the new general confinement, the Prime Minister defended the thesis that the Government has a defined “hierarchy of values” and “above all” the health of the people, placing support in second place. economic sectors most affected by the Covid-19 epidemic.
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