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The Council of Ministers will meet today and in discussion there will be measures to be implemented as of Tuesday, when the country enters a contingency situation due to the Covid-19 pandemic, as the Government has already announced.
At the end of August, precisely at a press conference after a meeting of the Council of Ministers, the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, justified the decision of this Government to impose new regulations as of September 15, of preventive way. , with the “significant change in routines” that will happen.
“The Government considers that this significant change in routines, in the use of transportation, the return to school and a more significant return to the labor market may require additional measures,” said Mariana Vieira da Silva.
On Monday, in Porto, at the beginning of the meeting that marked the return of meetings between experts, politicians and social partners to analyze the epidemiological situation of covid-19, the prime minister, António Costa, warned that Portugal will enter “a critical phase” due to the change of season, the start of the school year and the resumption of many activities, demanding compliance with the regulations for the control of the pandemic.
This meeting, according to an executive source, would be important to agree on these measures that will be adopted from Tuesday.
On Wednesday, the head of the socialist executive reaffirmed that a confinement situation “is not a scenario”, because the country would not support it, and again asked the Portuguese to be “extremely disciplined” in complying with the regulations.
According to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Health Directorate (DGS) released this Thursday, Portugal registered three more deaths related to Covid-19 and 646 new cases of infection by the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus in the last 24 hours.
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