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Prime Minister António Costa said Thursday that the new state of emergency must have a “broader horizon” than the usual 15 days and include Christmas and New Year’s Eve. The leader of the Socialist Executive guarantees that the experts’ data show that the restriction measures adopted have paid off, but he warned of the “greater risks” that are expected for January and February.
Leaving the Infarmed meeting, which brought together specialists, political leaders and social partners, António Costa said that the new presidential decree must reach the Assembly of the Republic to be voted on Friday and will allow measures to be taken “to enter into force to the next term. fortnight and, from now on, as an orientation for the entire period until January 7, so that we all have a perspective of a broader horizon ”.
“From the legal point of view, the state of emergency only lasts for fifteen days and, every 15 days, a new initiative from the President of the Republic, a new opinion from the Government and a new authorization from the Assembly of the Republic, but, in any case, it is essential that people and companies know how they can organize themselves, from January 6 to 7. Technically, this situation is resolved, ”he said.
António Costa said that, at this time, restrictive measures must be maintained so that “this dynamic continues to decline and Christmas can be reached with the situation duly controlled.” “As everyone anticipates, in January and February we will have greater risks,” he warned, due to the impact of the Christmas season and the “confluence” of new cases with seasonal flu.
António Costa stressed, however, that the experts’ estimates indicate that the peak of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has been reached “on November 25″ in Portugal and show that, at this time, the country is ” on a good path. “However, he stressed that it is necessary to” consolidate “this path.
“Regarding the epidemiological evolution, we all have to thank the great effort that has been made because there is a clear indication that we will have doubled the peak of this second wave and that we have entered a downward phase. Both in terms of new infections and in terms of hospitalizations. This means that the measures adopted have borne fruit ”, said António Costa, at the end of the Infarmed meeting in Lisbon.
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