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Now, with the measures sent at the end of last week – in reference to the guidelines of action in case of infection by Covid-19 -, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues said that schools can “together with local, regional and national health authorities , manage suspected cases, positive cases or the existence of an outbreak “.
Regarding the alternatives created for students in case of contagion, the Minister of Education said that the Government’s focus is face-to-face education. “What we want is for the children to be in school, that’s what we’re working for”, and “if classroom activities are interrupted, they have to be done in the smallest space possible, that is, in a class or in classes that were in the building, and for the shortest possible time ”.
However, Tiago Brandão Rodrigues assured that means are being mobilized to “if necessary, effectively have conditions for mixed education or distance education.” For this reason, the Government is “working with a huge national project for the digitization of the school and also with the Study at Home”, and as for this modality, “news soon” was promised.
Status “no waiver” to ensure protection for home users
The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, also said today that the State “is not resigned” to guaranteeing the protection of home users, pointing out that these are “very complex” structures and that the “duty of custody” falls on their owners. .
“What we are talking about is a very complex area of activity, where there are several actors, since the owners of the institutions, many of these institutions are mostly private or social sector institutions. There is a duty of custody here, which concerns, first hand, the structures that open doors to receive these people and then there is a duty that the State does not renounce to guarantee the best for what is the protection of these people ”, Highlighted Marta Temido.
The minister, who intervened on the sidelines of the meeting on the evolution of covid-19 in Portugal, which brought together experts, politicians and social partners in Porto, also said that “all attention” has been paid to these structures, where “the more sensitive to this disease ”.
“We know from experience that the conditions in which we work must have continuous surveillance and a regular presence of health entities, Social Security entities, Civil Protection entities and specifically, family health teams to guarantee what are the rules, ”he said.
Asked by journalists about the fact that the president of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, does not understand how the lessons of what happened in homes in the first wave of the pandemic have not yet been learned, Marta Temido said that “ it is not up to her to speak out ”on the subject. .
“What we try to show is that this was the path we had followed since the beginning of the pandemic,” said the minister, adding that the government “continues to respond” with the necessary means.
“I think the security they can have in us is that we have a serious, difficult problem here, with a complex approach because it requires a set of articulated means to respond and that we will continue to mobilize them for the best possible responses,” the minister reinforced. .
Also questioned about primary health care, Marta Temido admitted that they need to be improved, since they have “a very important role”, that is, ensuring, among other issues, home visits, telephone service, active surveillance of covid patients .
“This has been a recovery with what it has been in our country, as in other countries with a difficult recovery pace, but we knew that from the beginning. We knew that making an appointment today requires more time, ”said Marta Temido, assuring that the responses will intensify before the next fortnight.
The president of the Assembly of the Republic, Ferro Rodrigues, said today that he does not understand how, at this time, lessons have not yet been learned from what happened in homes in a first wave of the covid-19 pandemic.
“How do you understand that the tests only continue when there are people who test positive? When there is a person in a home who is positive, the road is already deteriorated, the road to a place in that home is already very strong, “said Ferro Rodrigues.
And he continued: “This is what I cannot understand why the lessons of the first phase were not learned and lessons were not learned for the evolution of the situation in July and August, that is to say”.
These statements were made in the second part of the meeting on the evolution of covid-19 in Portugal, which takes place this afternoon, in Porto, and which is not open to journalists, who attend the session in a room set up for such Finally, however, the transmission was not interrupted and the intervention of Ferro Rodrigues was heard.
The meeting brings together experts, politicians and social partners and has the participation of the President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the Prime Minister, the President of the Assembly of the Republic, party, businessmen and union leaders.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 889,498 deaths and infected more than 27.1 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,843 people died of the 60,507 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
