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The last of these meetings took place in the Faculty of Medicine of the Porto University, on September 7, after having been interrupted for about two months.
A government source told the Lusa agency that, at Thursday’s meeting on the epidemiological situation in Portugal, Topics such as the possible extension of the state of emergency, an evaluation of the measures taken so far and the trend of the evolution of Covid-19 in the country will be analyzed..
The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister, António Costa, the President of Parliament, Ferro Rodrigues, and leaders of the parties with parliamentary seats attend the Infarmed meetings.
These meetings, which arose at the initiative of the Prime Minister, with the aim of sharing information, began on March 24 and lasted until July 8, in ten sessions in the auditorium of Infarmed – National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, in Lisbon, initially weekly and then fortnightly.
After about two months without a meeting, the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, announced on August 27 that these sessions with experts and politicians would resume, with a novelty: “There will be a part, the exhibition part, which will be broadcast openly and that is the main difference that the meetings will have in relation to the past“.
The executive source said that, at this time, it has not yet been decided whether this format will be repeated this Thursday in which the expository part of the experts has an open broadcast.What was left behind
At the end of the tenth meeting on Covid-19 at Infarmed, in Lisbon, on July 8, the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, declared to the media: “Today we finished an experiment of several months, started at the end of March in a state of emergency. “
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said that “the model thought” for March, when Portugal adopted the first measures to combat Covid-19, “needed to be discontinued, closing a cycle and naturally considering, in due course, the opening of another cycle.” .
That same day, the Prime Minister denied the end of these meetings, opposing that only a date had not been set for the next session. “As long as it is justified, there will be new meetings,” he said.
The format of the ten sessions held at Infarmed, in Lisbon, consisted of a first part with technical presentations and a second phase of questions from politicians and businessmen and union leaders. Councilors of State also participated in these meetings by videoconference.
At the end of the sessions, it was customary for the head of state to summarize the conclusions to the journalists, with the Prime Minister and the President of the Assembly of the Republic at his side, which did not happen at the meeting on September 7 in Porto. . – before the representatives of the nine parties with parliamentary seats make statements.
