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The Government is considering decreeing a curfew in the first half of December, which will take both holidays and the respective bridges, in a kind of test to control the epidemic and understand if families can reunite at Christmas. For this, in principle, the use of the state of emergency will only advance at that time and the trade will have its activity restricted. Now, local control measures can be taken for covid-19, including restricted traffic and teleworking.
Party sources, who were received this Friday by António Costa in São Bento, told JN that starting from the extraordinary Council of Ministers on Saturday, measures will be implemented to restrict circulation in the municipalities most affected by the pandemic, similar to what that happens in Felgueiras, Lousada and Paços de Ferreira. The PAN revealed that the government has reported that it is considering general containment.
To activate such measures, the Prime Minister will have stressed that the basic laws of Civil Protection and Public Health will allow them and it will not be necessary to have a state of exception.
The measures will be tightened only at the end of November. There, as Costa will have advanced to the political forces, the President of the Republic will then be proposed to adopt a state of emergency, so that he can advance a national curfew in the first two weeks of December, starting at twelve o’clock. the night at six in the afternoon. in the morning, taking the holidays of December 1 and 8.
Commerce will also see its activity restricted, having, in principle, altered its schedules and stricter access rules, to avoid accumulations for Christmas purchases.
The JN found, together with the same sources, that in the provinces where there is an average of more than 240 infected per 100,000 inhabitants, a general closure will now be advanced in the same line that is already taking place in the three northern provinces from the country. This survey will have already been carried out, in what has been classified as risk maps, and may mainly affect municipalities in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and some in Greater Porto.
The General Directorate of Health (DGS) and the National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge have provided data to the Ministry of Health (MS) that the effects are already taking place on the number of infected in Felgueiras, Lousada and Paços de Ferreira. feel. Hence, this is the recipe to apply for now to the most affected municipalities nationwide, said the same sources.
Another of the measures that will already be adopted will be for companies to send the majority of employees who can adapt to this condition to telework, in order to avoid movements at rush hour, JN learned, who also learned that educational establishments maintain open.
António Costa, who has been with the Ministers of the Presidency and Health, Mariana Vieira da Silva and Marta Temido, respectively, receiving all the parties with parliamentary representation, has not given these political forces the certainty that these are exactly the molds of his measurements but he faced them from the morning with them.
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