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“We face this phase with confidence,” said the Minister of Health. “We have more means, more human and technical resources, more organization and more knowledge,” he said.
And he gave some examples. Portugal currently has “700 more fans than we had in March. In terms of laboratory capacity, we did about 3,000 tests per day in March and now we have performed 23,000 tests per day.”
One of the great objectives of this phase, said Marta Temido, is “Improve the speed of case detection and attention to non-Covid pathologies”.
Regarding the response capacity of the National Health Service, the minister guaranteed that it is far from any rupture and gave, once again, an example. Of the 500 beds that the Lisbon region and the Tagus Valley have maintained – in quotation marks – at this stage to respond to the covid, 300 are currently occupied “.
Asked about the possibility of the country returning to the point of local, or even general, confinements, the Minister of Health said that they have “I tried to have precision measurements.” He even said that in some “regions of the country we have already managed to say what the risk is almost door to door.”
“We already realized that confinement is less important than in the past,” he continued. “Today, all countries are trying to get away from that idea.” However, he did not stop stating that the measures will always be “proportionate to the risk we face.”
Even in this interview with Telejornal Marta Temido acknowledged that it has not always been possible to give the best answer in the telephone service and admitted that this is largely due to a problem with the telephone networks that “we are trying to solve. We are investing in technological modernization ”, he said,“ with the strengthening of telephone lines and the reinforcement of service capacity ”.
