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The Prime Minister said on Wednesday that he does not believe that face-to-face classes can be resumed in 15 days given the evolution of the epidemiological situation in the country and added that the alternative will be teaching. online.
This conviction was transmitted by António Costa at the end of the program Circulation of the Plaza, on TVI24, moderated by the journalist Carlos Andrade, with the usual participation of the parliamentary leader of the PS, Ana Catarina Mendes, the former leader of the PSD Pacheco Pereira and the member of the Council of State António Lobo Xavier.
“I do not think that in 15 days we will return to face-to-face education,” declared the executive leader, who also said that the Government will not repeat the measure it took last Friday to decree an interruption in the academy for the year, with compensation during vacation periods traditional.
“Therefore, we must resume teaching online”, Admitted António Costa.
In the program, after the criticism of the former CDS leader António Lobo Xavier to the positions taken by the Minister of Education regarding the suspension of face-to-face classes, the executive leader came out in defense of Tiago Brandão Rodrigues.
“No one forbade anyone to have an education online“Defended António Costa, refusing to allow his executive” to enter into a phantom discussion “and have” prejudices “in relation to private sector education.
The “tense moments” will continue for a few more weeks
The prime minister also warned that the “moments of tension” due to the epidemic will last a few more weeks and assumed that he would not have eased the measures at Christmas if the impact of the English variant had already been known. “For sure we are going to have this tension for a few more weeks,” he said.
Regarding the evolution of the epidemiological situation in Portugal, the executive leader said that “a time must be reached when the number of new cases per day stops increasing, losing the daily variation.”
“But only after that will we begin to reduce the number of people who need internment. And only after that will we begin to reduce the number of deaths per day. Therefore, it makes no sense to feed the illusion that we are not facing the worst moment. We will continue to face the worst moment in the coming weeks, “warned the Prime Minister.
Former PSD leader José Pacheco Pereira criticized the erratic nature of the measures adopted by the Government to combat the covid-19 epidemic and António Costa was even asked what he would have done differently if he had known what he knows today about the disease .
“Looking now, if we had known in due time about the existence of the English variant [do novo coronavírus]Surely the panorama of the measures that were defined for Christmas would have been different. Certainly, the restrictions that came into effect at the beginning of January would probably have come into effect, as of December 26, ”he assumed.
