• Or RT: The Transmission Risk was estimated at 1.14 in the period from September 2 to 6, about 457 new cases per day, revealed the Minister of Health. The incidence rate in the last seven days is 32.6 new cases per day. one hundred thousand inhabitants and in the last 14 days it is 55.8 new cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants.
  • “Flatten the curve”: The development of a vaccine and a treatment was one of the big topics of the week after the suspension of vaccine trials by the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. Marta Temido approached, not directly, but taking advantage of the approach of returning to face-to-face classes to remember that “even with the vaccine and effective treatment there is a real risk.” The Minister of Health assured that there is a date “we are better prepared to respond to this context [de pandemia], in terms of resources, work methods, knowledge ”, but that, at this moment, the only way to“ flatten the curve ”is through the“ individual effort of each one ”.
  • How will schools handle suspected and / or positive cases? The general director of Health assumed that “the intention is that closing a school in its entirety is an exception.” Graça Freitas explained that the decisions made about an educational establishment will always be decided collectively, involving elements of the local health authority and the group in which the school is inserted, and the response that is given must take into account several variables, namely the behavior of the virus in that community where the school is located and the contact details of the person in question. The general director explained that with the recommendations made to limit spaces and movements, the objective is, when possible, to limit the action in case of a suspicious case or infection to a class or area, with the closure of the school only. ” extraordinary cases ”.
  • Supervision of spaces around schools: One of the measures announced on Thursday by the Council of Ministers was that in restaurants, cafes and pastry shops 300 meters from schools, groups are limited to a maximum of four people. Regarding the control of this measure, Marta Temido affirmed that all people are “public health agents” and this “is a moment” of individual and collective responsibility. “I understand the concerns that everyone may have about what may be less appropriate behavior to respect the rules, but I also know that we can count on civil society to alert, in particular, the youngest, the school community, parents when the rules don’t apply. they are respected, ”said the minister.
  • Notice to families: “Families have to understand that if they live in different houses, in different nuclei and in different bubbles, when they get together, they are bringing together different worlds and that one infected person is enough … You have to reduce coexistence. We are in a pandemic, we do not like to be, but in fact we are in a pandemic. There are a number of measurements that work, and masks help with those measurements. They are a barrier method that helps protect, they are not miraculous. If they were miraculous, they were the only measure we recommend. We lived life as usual and always wore a mask. The mask is a barrier method, it is important, but it has its value included in a group of measures ”, warned Graça Freitas.