Confine? With this “growth, I see another alternative with difficulty”

Qfour thousand boxes of COVID-19-19 per day in Portugal in the next few weeks? “It is quite possible”. The alert comes from Ricardo Mexia, president of the National Association of Public Health Doctors, who also drew attention, on the TVI24 antenna, about the possible “implications” that this could have.

“I think it is quite possible. It depends on everything we do to prevent this from happening, but it is quite possible.”, reiterated the expert.

Ricardo Mexia also recalled that “we have seen, practically, in a week, a doubling in relation to the thousand for these, about two thousand [casos]”and, he considered,” is perfectly possible that it could evolve in this negative direction and with all the implications that this entails“, as a commitment to the response of the National Health Service (SNS).

Already on a possible new lockdown population, the president of the National Association of Public Health Physicians defends that “it would have been possible preventit would be if we had prepared and implemented measures to prevent what is happening now ”. “If we continue with this growth, honestly, it is difficult for me to find another alternative”, frieze.

For Ricardo Mexia, therefore, we have to find a way to “interrupt the transmission chains, being more surgical and more direct at the problems“.

At the usual press conference on the evolution of pandemic, this Monday, the Undersecretary of State and Health, António Lacerda Sales assured that the SNS is prepared for the “overload” of this second wave and further argued that “All costs avoid confinement” because “we cannot be closed all winter”.

It is recalled that this Monday Portugal exceeded the ‘barrier’ of 100,000 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus. The country registered, in the last 24 hours, 1,949 more infected e 17 Deceased related to COVID-19-19. Since to pandemic Upon arrival in the country, the authorities recorded 101,860 cases of the disease and 2,198 deaths.

Also read: AL MINUTO: The Government wants to avoid confinements “at all costs.” Belgian “tsunami”