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The Prime Minister reaffirmed this Wednesday that a confinement situation “is a non-scenario”, because the country would not support it, and asked the Portuguese to be “extremely disciplined” in complying with the regulations.
“The best way not to stop again is to be highly disciplined in compliance with the regulations. We have to control this pandemic and that requires enormous discipline on the part of all,” said António Costa, at the end of a visit to 54. 2nd edition of Capital do Móvel, in Alfândega do Porto, on the eve of the decision-making of the Council of Ministers on the contingency situation that will be in force as of Monday.
The head of government recalled that it is not because “the sun is shining and it is hot” that behaviors should be relaxed, that is, people who walk together, stop washing their hands or “big dinners”, because if they do, the the country runs the risk of losing everything it has achieved in recent months.
“If there is something that we all have in mind, it is that the country does not support him, the families do not support him, the companies do not support him and individually, each one of us does not support going through a situation of confinement,” he said.
“This is not a scenario, we cannot stop again,” he reinforced.
António Costa referred to the need to comply with the rules, although he had to learn to live with them.
“It is more difficult to comply with traffic regulations and we learn to comply with them or it is more difficult to learn to read and write and learn,” he said, by way of example.
The virus does not walk alone, he stressed, remembering that it is each person who potentially takes it to others.
Regarding the rules, Costa told those present that, during the visit to the event, she met a boy, who is now in his fifth year, and to whom she asked if he knew the rules to return to school, to which she replied: “Put on the mask, keep your distance and wash your hands.”
The prime minister later pointed out that the way the children have learned, again asking the Portuguese for an effort.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 898,503 deaths and infected more than 27.6 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,849 people out of 61,541 confirmed to have died, according to the most recent bulletin from the General Directorate of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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