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men statements to the Lusa agency, Marco Martins, who is also president of thetimes of Gondomar, said he spoke to most mayors district and that all agreed that “more serious measures are needed, but measures that balance public health and the economy.”
“We cannot, of course, return to the confinement, we must have balance,” he defended.
The information provided by the health authorities indicates that “most infections occur at family parties or social gatherings,” he recalled.
Thus, Marco Martins considered, “the most sensible and prudent way will be the curfew at night, similar to what is already being done in many places in Europe in the last two weeks.”
“What do we find, contact mayors Felgueiras, Lousada and Paços de Ferreira, is that the measures do not have logic to be applied only to one, two or three municipalities, because what happens is that people leave these municipalities and go to the restaurant or go to have fun in establishments. from the county next door, “he stressed.
Therefore, it argues that “it is necessary to apply the measures to a zone wider area, to a district or region. “
“We have to stop this situation,” he said.
Experts warned today that the Northern region could reach 7,000 new cases of infection fur SARS–CoV-2 next week.
Heard by Lusa, they affirmed that there are “several municipalities” at a “similar level” to the three of Tâmega and Sousa, where more restrictive measures were imposed.
Milton Severo, responsible for projections Institute of Public Health of the University of Porto (ISPUP), affirmed today that, if the forecasts are maintained, the North region could “reach 7,000 new cases” of infection by SARS–CoV-2 and achieve a index of transmissibility (the so-called RT) of 1.6.
Oscar Felgueiras, a mathematician specializing in epidemiology at the University of Porto, said that in the north there are “several municipalities” that are “at a similar level” to the municipalities of Felgueiras, Paços de Ferreira and Lousada, where more restrictive measures were implemented to contain the pandemic.
“There are several municipalities that have very high incidences and it would be perfectly natural for there to be an expansion of measures taking into account the evolution of the situation,” the mathematician stressed, giving the municipalities of Vizela, Peñafiel, Paredes and Porto as an example.
To Câtimes Municipal de Matosinhos announced this Tuesday the closure of shopping centers at 9:00 p.m. and asks the Government to “adopt measures “for the municipalities of Zone Metropolitana do Porto “more affected“due to the increase in new cases of COVID-19-19.
In a statement, the president of the Chambertimes de Matosinhos, Luísa Salgueiro, highlights that the mitigation measures of pandemic gives COVID-19-19 “only makes sense at the level supramunicipal“and that the municipalities” have no competence in areas fundamental “to cope with the increase in new cases of infection by SARS–CoV-2, giving as an example teaching and limiting travel.
A pandemic of COVID-19-19 has already caused more than 1.1 million deaths and more than 43.5 million cases of infection around the world, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 2,371 people died out of 124,432 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Direction-General health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December of 2019, I Wuhan, a city in central China.
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