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“How do you understand that the tests are only continued when there are people who say positive? When there is a person in a home who says positive, the road is already deteriorated, the road to a place in that home is already very strong,” said Ferro Rodrigues.
And he continued: “This is what I do not understand why lessons were not learned from the first phase and lessons learned for the evolution of the situation in July and August, that is to say”.
These statements were made in the second part of the meeting on the evolution of covid-19 in Portugal, which takes place this afternoon, in Porto, and which is not open to journalists, who attend the session in a room set up for such Finally, however, the transmission was not interrupted and the intervention of Ferro Rodrigues was heard.
PS ensures that back to school is being prepared in detail
José Luís Carneiro, deputy general secretary of the PS, addressed the issue of going back to school and home security after the meeting.
“The inauguration is prepared down to the smallest detail in coordination between the Ministry of Health and the ME, with guidelines that are available on the DGS and DGest web pages,” said José Luís Carneiro.
As for homes, the Secretary General assures that they are as safe as any other institution in our daily life and that the authorities have everything under control.
José Luís Carneiro recalled that Portugal has already guaranteed “6.9 million vaccines” together with the rest of the European countries and that it is “the country with the most tests in the European framework”.
More than 600 thousand Portuguese have already downloaded the ‘StayAway Covid’ application
“Today, at nine in the morning, there were 660 thousand Portuguese who had downloaded the application and it is very important that we reach even higher figures”, stressed José Manuel Mendonça, listing among the challenges for the future the guarantee of European interoperability in country apps to aid “mobility and confidence”.
Rui Rio according to Ferro Rodrigues’s ‘slap on the wrist’
The PSD leader assumed that he agreed with the “slap on the wrist” of the president of the Assembly on the housing situation. Rui Rio assures that there are households that are complying with all the rules, but that “we all know” that there are many that pose a risk in the face of a second wave that may be just around the corner. “It is urgent to strengthen surveillance in homes,” he defended.
Rio also asks the government to create a “transportation model” to reduce student-to-student contact on buses.
“It is not only what happens at school, but also in transportation,” stressed the PSD leader.
BE insists on hiring 18,500 professionals for the NHS in 2020
Moisés Ferreira, from the Bloco de Esquerda, defended that it is necessary to effectively hire the 18,500 professionals provided for in the State Budgets for the SNS.
“There may be rules in schools, but this will only happen if there are more professionals; the same in SNS, if we want a SNS that does not leave any need unattended, we insist once again on hiring 18,500 professionals provided for in the OE ”, he defended. Moisés Ferreira also addressed the issue of housing as one of the main concerns to take into account.
Comes according to PSD: “It is necessary to create a transport model for students”
André Ventura defended the same as Rui Rio. A transport model to prevent contacts between students who travel to school from leading to uncontrolled outbreaks.
“It was essential that there be a specific transportation plan, articulated with the municipalities, for the schools,” said André Ventura, recalling that he presented a draft resolution in this regard in the Assembly of the Republic.
CDS: “Unfortunately the government is already failing”
Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos says that the “Government is already failing” by leaving thousands of families in insecurity. “Rit eliminates the uncertainty and fear of returning to face-to-face classes, “says the CDS leader. The subject of transportation back to school was also addressed by Rodrigues dos Santos.
“We are prepared to face the return to school”, guarantees the Minister of Health
Marta Temido defended that the return of the meetings in Infarmed is important and that this in particular served to record the situation of the disease in the last 60 days.
The Health Minister also guaranteed that “we are prepared to face the return to school” and also affirmed that “we are better prepared” for a possible second wave of the disease.
“We are prepared to face going back to school and we are also better prepared than six months ago to face an eventual increase in the disease,” said Marta Temido. The minister also recalled that the country has “more means, experience and knowledge.”
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