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The General Directorate of Health analyzes the sanitary measures proposed for the Congress of the PCP and prepares a norm for the use of masks in prisons. There are 508 active shoots. Graça Freitas says that “we are going to have Christmas” but the measures taken at that time depend on the impact of the restrictive measures that are now in force.
“We are going to have Christmas for sure, with or more people, with more or less distance”, predicts Graça Freitas. “We hope that it will be possible to relax the current restrictive measures,” added the Director General of Health at the press conference on Monday, on the epidemiological situation of the covid-19 pandemic, highlighting that “relaxing is not relaxing.”
“We have to wait to see the impact of the measures that have been taken,” said Graça Freitas.
The General Directorate of Health (DGS) is analyzing the proposed sanitary measures for the PCP Congress.
“The DGS learned of the proposal through the regional health authority of Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and the proposal is under analysis,” said Graça Freitas, when asked about the celebration of the PCP Congress, between 27 and 29, in Loures. , in the Lisbon district.
Graça Freitas indicated that a total of 508 outbreaks have been identified in the continental territory of Portugal and explained that “in the northern region there may be a slight under-registration due to the high number of cases” that currently exist.
Therefore, there 182 outbreaks in households, of which five in long-term care units; There is 94 outbreaks in schools (from nurseries to Superior, public and private) with 814 confirmed cases; 37 outbreaks in health institutions with 397 active cases and 435 confirmed cases in prisons.
Regarding prisons, the Director General of Health said that the DGS is working with the General Directorate of Reintegration and Penitentiary Services (DGRSP) “to make guidance on wearing a mask in a prison setting“Although the general concept is the one that exists at a general level, of wearing a mask in a closed environment – except when you are in the” bubble “of coexistence – and in an open environment when it is not possible to guarantee physical distance.
At the press conference this Monday on the epidemiological situation of the covid-19 pandemic, the Director General of Health stressed that Portugal is “monitoring at the European level to acquire vaccines” and “the vaccination plan has been made in recent months ”, since the different vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 began to be announced.
The plan includes transportation, storage, distribution, training and administration, explained Graça Freitas.
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