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“I felt very clearly that there had to be a reorganization in society.” It was thus, with a feeling and with the aim of “sending a clear signal” to the Portuguese of the need to “change their behavior”, that António Costa justified the new restrictive measures announced this Wednesday, in the field of the fight against the pandemic and the state of calamity declared again.
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In an interview with the newspaper Público, which left the publication of the entire conversation for Friday, the prime minister again refused to accept the idea of a new confinement and pressed the “individual behavior” key, as he had already done in the conference. The press conference on Wednesday after the Council of Ministers meeting, and many times before.
Even so, it was not exhaustive, leaving in the air that, if the restrictive measures are not followed and each one does not do their part to stop the pandemic, the Government can always resort to more drastic actions: together that no dramatic steps will be taken? I can not. It is a matter of common sense. But we have to avoid it ”.
Costa also guaranteed that it was not the new contagion record established this Wednesday (2,072 in 24 hours) but the progressive increase that has been registered since August that has led to the taking of new measures and a return to a state of calamity. “Time passed, people became saturated, got used to risk or devalued risk because the age group [dos contágios] it was changing, ”he justified.
Then, the Prime Minister praised the National Health Service, which, he considers, “is better prepared to face the disease”, and revealed that, as happened in Porto, São João, also in Lisbon campaign extensions activated “. “The Armed Forces Hospital has already been reactivated and another field hospital is being prepared, in front of Santa María, in the University City,” he exemplified. “We have the ability to respond. Hospitals operate in a network, it is possible to manage flows according to the different needs from one hospital to another ”.
