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The Municipality of Matosinhos will ask the government to adopt measures for the municipalities of AMP most affected by the increase in the number of infections by COVID-19. “Many of the measures to mitigate contagion only make sense at the supramunicipal level,” defends the president of the autarky, Luísa Salgueiro.
In a statement, the Chamber clarifies that “it cannot intervene in areas identified as essential to contain the transmission of the virus, such as in Education and in limiting travel.” Thus, “. Decisions will have to be made at the central power level, and at the regional level. It does not help a municipality, in isolation, to adopt certain procedures if neighboring municipalities do not do the same,” says Luísa Salgueiro.
This Tuesday, at a meeting of the Municipal Civil Protection Commission, which was attended by the Northern Regional Health Administration. It has already been decided, unanimously, to anticipate the closing of the shopping centers at 9:00 p.m., along with other measures that will be presented on Wednesday at a press conference.
The members of the CMPC unanimously approved to recommend to the Government that the prohibition of circulation between neighboring municipalities be determined, similar to the measure applied to the municipalities of Lousada, Paços de Ferreira and Felgueiras.
They also recommend the implementation of Distance Education for the 3rd cycle, Secondary, Professional and University Education.
The duty to stay at home, except for authorized movements, will be another proposal, as well as sharing the georeferenced location of infected and / or quarantined people, as well as the places where outbreaks have been detected, with the Civil Protection services.
CMPC also wants a device to reinforce the operational capacity of fire departments to respond to COVID-19 similar to the device to fight forest fires.
