SIC News | The government considers the first week of deflation “encouraging”



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Political authorities and experts will meet next week to decide what will happen in the second phase of deflation, scheduled for May 18.

The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, considers that this first week was encouraging.

“The mortality curve shows a constant decrease”

The minister defended this Saturday that the Covid-19 mortality curve reveals a “steady decline“since April 15 and that the risk of an infected person contaminating others indicates that daily protection is still needed.

Government prepares to reopen housing

Marta Temido also revealed that the health authorities are study the return to possible normality areas like reopening homes, daycare or soccer. The rules will be released next week.

Covid-19 numbers in Portugal

Portugal registers this Saturday 1,126 deaths and 27,406 infected. The number of hospitalized patients in hospitals they went back to go down. There are 27 fewer than Friday, totaling 815. As for the most critical cases, there was also a reduction. There are 7 fewer people in intensive care, 120 in total.

We have already recovered patients there was one more climb, at 2,499. 77 more people were considered cured.

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