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There are 19 municipalities that already have more than 120 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants and, therefore, are above the risk level defined by the Government. For now, they will also advance to the second stage of deflation starting Monday and will only stop if within two weeks they remain above this level, as the Prime Minister announced on Thursday.
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In addition to these locations, neighboring counties may also be subject to a brake, according to the prime minister. The proposal that the experts made to the Government contemplated the calculation of a new indicator that would allow a rigorous understanding in which cases neighboring municipalities should or should not be covered. the epidemiological situation.
The objective of waiting two more weeks, according to António Costa, is to try to ensure that these places are able to control the situation, defending “special precautions”, that is, in the control of outbreaks, identification of cases, follow-up of contacts and isolation. of infected people. “By marking a municipality as at risk, the objective is to do local risk control work, ”said the Prime Minister.
If in two successive evaluations, the same counties are above the threshold, then they should not continue. In response to journalists, António Costa also clarified that, although the situation in one of these municipalities worsens a lot in the next two weeks, “noor no provisional measure will be taken ”.
