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A study carried out in the Lisbon and Vale do Tejo region reveals that face-to-face work and gyms represent a high risk of contagion in Covid-19. The one who announced it was Henrique de Barros, from the Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto, in the meeting that takes place this Thursday, at Infarmed, in Lisbon.
The official said the investigation was carried out between October 2 and November 6 and involved 782 people infected with the new coronavirus. “Going to gyms, working in person or living in accommodation but overcrowding seems to be associated with a higher probability of infection,” says the specialist.
According to the data of the study, of the total of 782 people, 234 refused to answer. «Almost 50% [dos infetados] they have higher education ”and“ a great majority said that they went to the gym at least once a week ”, that is to say 96.5%.
In this sense, according to Henrique de Barros, “gyms appear as scenarios where exposure to infections is more frequent”, as is also the case with public transport, although on a smaller scale.
On the other hand, “the level [de infeção] it is much lower in those who went to shopping centers and restaurants ”, which are currently, according to the research in question, the places with the lowest risk of contagion by viral disease.
The meetings on the evolution of invite-19 in Portugal, which bring together politicians, specialists and social partners, resumed this Thursday at 10:00 am at Infarmed, in Lisbon.
The last of these meetings took place at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto, on September 7, after having been interrupted for about two months.
A government source told the Lusa agency that, in today’s meeting on the epidemiological situation in Portugal, issues such as the possible extension of the state of emergency, a balance of the measures taken so far and the trend of the evolution of covid-19 in the parents.
These meetings, which arose at the initiative of the Prime Minister, with the aim of sharing information, began on March 24 and lasted until July 8, in ten sessions in the auditorium of Infarmed – National Authority of Medicines and Health Products, in Lisbon, initially weekly and then fortnightly.
After about two months without a meeting, the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, announced on August 27 that these sessions with experts and politicians would be resumed, with a novelty: “There will be a part, the expository part, which will be of open diffusion and that is the main difference that the meetings will have in relation to the past ”.
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