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The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, said this Friday that he had the expectation that Portugal would register only 100 cases of Covid-19, or less, per day, in early September, but considered the situation “controlled and stable” . .
“My expectation, in June and July, I do not hide it, it was that we would arrive now [no início de setembro] with 100 cases or less per day, ”he said, on the sidelines of a visit to the town of Castro Marim, within the framework of the cycle of trips to all the municipalities of the Algarve.
The head of state considered that “the the situation is controlled and stable, in the good sense of the term, in terms of hospitalizations and intensive care ”, but that expected “a downward trend, tending to decrease progressively” no global number of cases.
Unfortunately, that is not what happened. We are, on some days of the week, with ups and downs: on weekends, [os números] they are low -between Saturday and Monday- and during the week they are much higher ”, he added.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa guaranteed that not worried and stressed that the Government “is what it says that it is concerned.”
There are several statements from members of the Government who say that there is some concern or that the situation is serious. When the Government, with a few weeks in advance, admits going into a state of contingency, it is not because it is carefree, but rather that it did not announce the state of contingency. Prevention is better than cure. Only those who think there may be a risk of acting like this are just that, “he said.
The President of the Republic recalled that the return of the meetings on the evolution of Covid-19 is scheduled for Monday in Porto, with the presence of all political parties with parliamentary seats.
COVID-19. The meetings between politicians and experts resumed on Monday in Porto
“I hope that this session will also be useful for this, so that all political parties understand why the Government, in advance, preventively, said that it intended, in a few weeks, to resort to the state of contingency. I hope that this session, in addition to clarifying the Portuguese in the open part, clarifies the political parties with seats in the Assembly of the Republic ”, he stressed.
Asked about the public presence in stadiums, a claim claimed by the Portuguese Professional Football League in recent weeks, the head of state said that it is about “the definition of rules and the monitoring of the evolution of the situation” and that the management of the pandemic implies “a balance between defending life and health and not killing the economy or society.”
This is a balance between dramatizing a lot and dramatizing completely. The total dramatization and the total dramatization. It is a balance. In this balance, the definition of health rules comes into play. When defining a health rule, the risk it poses to life and health is taken into account, but the example given and how it is read is also taken into account. The intention can be very good and the reading can be completely different, ”he said.
Exemplifying with the different rules between the Book Fair, shows, schools and establishments, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa argued that “the set-up is complicated” because the public opinion expects “equal rules for all situations”.
“This weighting is a weighting that the experts must carry out. But then, and for that reason ‘I press the key a lot’ to clarify, you have to explain to people to understand why in one case it is one meter, in another two meters and in another eight meters. If there is no explanation, a part of the Portuguese dramatizes and another part dramatizes completely ”, he concluded.
