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Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has already advanced with the request for renewal of the state of emergency, which will come into effect between 00:00 on November 24 and 11:59 on December 8. In view of the current state of emergency, the president assumes the scope is broader, without classifying it as “limited.”
The proposed Presidential Decree, which will be voted on in Parliament on Friday morning, opens the possibility for the Government to establish different levels for risk municipalities with different restriction measures, also admitting the mandatory confinement of people with the SARS virus . CoV-2, or under active surveillance, as well as determining the closure of stores or companies.
Thus, the president expressly states that “in the municipalities with higher levels of risk, the necessary restrictions may be imposed to reduce the risk of contagion and implement measures to prevent and combat the epidemic, and the measures to be adopted must be calibrated according to the degree risk of each municipality and, for this, they can be grouped according to data and evaluation competent authorities, including the prohibition of circulating on public roads during certain periods of the day or certain days of the week “.
In a hardening of the current state of emergency, the possibility of “to the extent strictly necessary and proportional, the compulsive confinement in a health facility, at home or, when this is not possible, in another place defined by the competent authorities, of people carrying the SARS-CoV-2 virus, or under active surveillance “.
The document also admits that “competent public authorities” can determine the “total or partial closure of establishments, services, companies or means of production and changes are imposed to the respective regime or to the opening hours “, covering the measures adopted by the Government in the current state of emergency.
In view of the decree of the current state of emergency, there are still some differences, which allow “limiting the possibility of terminating the labor ties of workers in the services and establishments integrated in the SNS”, that is, the The government can stop the departure of professionals assigned to the NHS.
Mention is also made of the protection of personal data, making it explicit that “There may be a place for the processing of personal data to the extent strictly necessary for the implementation of the planned measures (…) without, in this case, being able to keep a memory or record of the body temperature measurements carried out or the results of the SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic tests. “
In the introduction to the document, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa highlights that “the experts point out that the effect of the measures taken on the evolution of the pandemic is felt, in the number of infected, between two and six weeks after taking it, and In the number of deaths, about a month later. “
Thus, the president argues that “it is essential to renew the state of emergency, so that certain restrictive measures can also be renewed, but more adapted to the experience of reality and more differentiated according to the situation and heterogeneity of each municipality, and that it will soon have positive effects “. And it leaves the indication that the municipalities at risk should be divided into three levels, as said the deputy d ‘Os Verdes, José Luís Ferreira, and was admitted by the Minister of Health.” For this differentiation, the criteria that they allow the grouping of risk levels, defined by the European Center for Disease Control ”, writes Marcelo.
Taking into account the current list of high-risk municipalities, which includes 191 municipalities, the levels advanced by José Luís Ferreira would place 98 municipalities in the lowest level (between 240 to 480 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days) , 62 at the municipal level. intermediate (from 480 to 960 cases) and 28 at the highest level (more than 960 cases), while the municipalities of Alcochete, Cadaval and Montijo, which have an incidence of less than 240 cases, were placed on the list of 191 municipalities for be located together with the municipalities in which this threshold is exceeded. Consult the map of the municipalities at each step.
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