• DGS supports analyzing shortening the isolation period to 10 days: The Director General of Health revealed that the General Directorate of Health is analyzing the possibility of reducing the quarantine period in view of what has been decided and demonstrated across borders. “” The 10 days [de isolamento] they are more or less consensual for positive people. During this period, it is easier to follow the path of someone who has tested positive, than that of a person who is only in contact with a positive person, who may be asymptomatic and who may be positive or negative. Even the French have shortened that period to seven days for patients. In the patients’ contacts, they do the test on the seventh day, but, if it is negative, they only release the person from isolation on the tenth day ”, explained Graça Freitas, who highlighted that, however, this is a decision as beneficial as it is complex .
  • Fatima: Regarding the possibility of having more than 50 thousand people in the Sanctuary on October 13, Graça Freitas replied that the General Directorate of Health (DGS) “does not know where the number 55 thousand came from.” “There was no request for an opinion, no contingency plan, or Sanctuary plan, so it does not seem to be expected that, being in a contingency situation, with an escalating epidemic, and despite (neither) DGS or another health authority was consulted about it, we do not expect 55 thousand people in the sanctuary ”, said Graça Freitas.
  • Sporting-Gil Vicente in analysis: “My teammates from Gil Vicente and Sporting are doing everything possible to see if there are conditions for the game to develop. If it happens, it will always be a postponement of the game and never the stoppage of the I League. The remaining games will take place.” a complex issue, given the high number of infections in both teams, “said the general director of Health, Graça Freitas.
  • 67 young Belgians infected in Portugal: Graça Freitas explained that the matter is being investigated, but said that the organizers of the trip already admitted that the young people did not comply with the safety regulations that were explained “insistently” by these organizers of the trip and by the Portuguese authorities.
  • There are 290 active outbreaks in the country: After a first situation report on the epidemiological situation, the Minister of Health began the press conference revealing that there are currently 290 active outbreaks of Covid-19 in the country: 146 in the North, 20 in the Center, 95 in the region of Lisbon. and Vale do Tejo, 11 in the Alentejo and 17 in the Azores.
  • Incidence rate: Marta Temido revealed that the incidence rate per 100,000 inhabitants in the last seven days is now 39.7 cases. The same indicator, relative to the last 14 days, is 68 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
  • Today’s numbers: Portugal today counts three more deaths related to covid-19 and 605 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS). Since the beginning of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 1,878 deaths and 65,626 cases of infection.