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In an intervention with the theme “A safe return to school”, Henrique Barros, president of the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP) stressed that regardless of the existence of “waves”, it is not enough to pay attention only to positive cases, but also asymptomatic cases.
Henrique Barros also said that despite the opening of schools, it is expected that “the Rt index (transmissibility index) will not increase more” than the values currently registered.
“It is possible to think that we will be able to control the situation,” said Henrique Barros, also considering the reopening of schools, that is, so that information from the point of view of health, hygiene and safety is transmitted to children and young.
Carla Nunes from the National School of Public Health, who in the session presented data on the school’s reopening period on May 18 and in September in other European countries, stated that “the heterogeneity of safety and hygiene plans is very large ”, Considering that the school is“ only one of the sectors that is opening up ”and that it provides“ behavior changes ”in various groups, not only among children and young people.
During her presentation, the specialist, who used data from other European countries, assured that the increase in cases, for example in the Nordic countries, “cannot be attributed only to the reopening of schools”, but to the relaxation of hygiene measures . and security in this summer period.
Therefore, the specialist defended the need for the involvement of students, teachers, parents, schools and health authorities for this next academic year, considering that this involvement must also be “locally adapted.”
The meeting brings together the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, party, businessmen and union leaders.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 889,498 deaths and infected more than 27.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,843 people died of the 60,507 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
