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“How do you understand that the tests only continue when there are people who test positive? When there is a person in a home who is positive, the road is already deteriorated, the road to a place in that home is already very strong, “said Ferro Rodrigues.
And he continued: “This is what I cannot understand why the lessons of the first phase were not learned and lessons were not learned for the evolution of the situation in July and August, that is to say”.
These statements were made in the second part of the meeting on the evolution of covid-19 in Portugal, which takes place this afternoon, in Porto, and which is not open to journalists, who attend the session in a room set up for such Finally, however, the transmission was not interrupted and the intervention of Ferro Rodrigues was heard.
The meeting brings together experts, politicians and social partners and has the participation of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, party, businessmen and union leaders.
Another issue raised by Ferro Rodrigues was the reliability of international data.
“I can’t look at the statistics showing the number of cases in Portugal and China without being left with a mixture of perplexity and some irritation,” he confessed.
The president of the Assembly of the Republic questioned how it is possible that China presents seven or eight cases of new infections daily, while Portugal sometimes presents 300 and 400 cases.
