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Marta Temido says that the plan already recommends wearing a mask in open spaces
The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, clarified that the orientation of the plan for autumn-winter already recommends the use of a mask in open spaces due to the impossibility of maintaining the physical prevention distance for covid-19.
“” The legislation currently in force provides for the mandatory use of the mask for people over 10 years of age in closed public spaces, recommending its use in any open or closed space, provided that the minimum physical distance of two meters is not guaranteed. ” , this is clearly already the direction of the General Directorate of Health that the ministry strives to enforce, “the minister quoted in the press conference on the evolution of the pandemic.
The explanation came as a result of today’s statements by the President of the Republic, in which Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa left the suggestion of wearing a mask in “circulation on public roads at points of greater crossings of people”, adding that the had adopted “months ago”. “this behaviour.
Regarding the number of outbreaks in schools, the Minister of Health distanced himself from the reading presented this Friday by the National Federation of Teachers (Fenprof), who advanced a list of 122 schools where cases have already been registered and questioned the data of the direction. -General Health (DGS) which targeted only 23 outbreaks.
“We are talking about different things and we cannot confuse the numbers, saying that someone gave the wrong numbers when we reported on different concepts and even dates,” said Marta Temido, seconded by the director general of Health: “One thing is isolated cases, another one thing are the outbreaks, which today are 28 in the country, with 175 confirmed cases. It does not mean that there are no other isolated cases. “
The update of outbreak numbers was also carried out by Graça Freitas in relation to health institutions, having identified “21 institutions that have outbreaks”: four in the Northern Regional Health Administration (ARS), three in the Center, 12 in Lisbon and Vale. do Tejo, one in the Alentejo and the other in the Algarve.
“These are outbreaks that are controlled, they haven’t resulted in a very large increase in cases and there are already outbreaks where people are recovering,” he said.
Graça Freitas also took the opportunity to highlight that the flu vaccination campaign is going “better” than expected, since “the vaccines are being distributed in advance”, facilitating the logistics for their administration in nursing homes and other structures. The general director of Health pointed out that “for the week” there will already be areas of the country with all users of vaccinated homes.
Portugal today registered 12 more deaths related to covid-19 and 1,394 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
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