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The day began with the regular reading of the numbers of the latest epidemiological bulletin by the Minister of Health, Marta Temido. The general director of Health, Graça Freitas, is also present.
- Portugal faces a growing case situation that “will tend to get worse in the coming days,” according to the official. The minister also said that the Health Ministry is working to “maintain NHS readiness” and relieve pressure from both hospital units and health professionals.
- According to calculations by the Ricardo Jorge Institute, it is possible that in the next few days the number of positive cases reaches 3,000, “if preventive measures are not followed,” emphasized Marta Temido. “The Ricardo Jorge Institute is based on mathematical models and does not have the ability to foresee the changes that result from the measures we are adopting at this time, whether they are health services or global policy measures such as those approved today by the Council of Ministers-, but they point to a growth that could reach 3,000 cases in a few days if we do not have the necessary caution, the necessary care ”, he said.
- There are currently 396 active outbreaks in the country136 in the north, 178 in Lisbon and the Tagus valley, 50 in the center, 14 in the Alentejo and 18 in the Algarve.
- The DGS has today reduced the isolation period from 14 to 10 days in mild or asymptomatic cases. He was asked about the difference between clinical discharge and quarantine.Marta Temido clarified that the latter was not modified in terms of term. In other words, what was changed was the clinical discharge criteria, the criteria for a patient – confirmed with covid – to be discharged. And here, he explains, is that there was a change. Thus, in cases where there is a mild or moderate disease, with mild symptoms, with a confirmed disease with a positive test, and not in the case of someone who has been placed in isolation because it is suspected that they have contracted the virus.
- Regarding the fact that Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal In a private ambulance plane, the Director General of Health explained that in this type of case the measures “that apply to any citizen” in Portugal were applied. However, in this particular case, as is the case with a player who lives abroad, transportation “totally depends on the person because they have to organize their transportation,” said Graça Freitas.
- “In addition, they are treated exactly the same as anyone else. Once the transport has been found, it has to be evaluated by the health authority and has to follow certain procedures. One of the things that these people [tem de fazer] is to sign a statement that they are committed to how they will complete their period of prophylactic isolation. As long as he does not assume this term of responsibility himself, nothing progresses. The General Directorate of Health, like all the countries of the European Union, is obliged, whoever the citizen is, to inform the destination country that this citizen has started a period of prophylactic isolation in Portugal ”, he added.
