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The Movement of Companies of the Marriage Sector (MESC) wants to resume its activity in April, after a year “practically stopped”, with tests to the covid-19 for the wedding guests.
“Conducting a test or demonstration of a negative test within 72 or 24 hours (depending on the test used) will be a requirement for the wedding,” the movement proposes in a statement.
Identifying infected people will prevent them from going to the wedding, preventing them from transmitting the virus to guests and employees, he stressed.
In this way, the spaces where weddings are organized become an “active part” in the testing, identification, communication and isolation of infected people, he said.
In addition to conducting tests, the movement advocates the collection of telephone contacts of all the guests in the space where the wedding takes place and their communication to the General Directorate of Health (DGS) in the event of an outbreak.
“These solutions will make it possible to effectively resolve the isolation of those infected and of all those who have been in contact,” he said in the press release.
The movement recalled that the period of unemployment is already “extremely long” and is questioning the survival of the majority of companies in these sectors, namely, hospitality, culture and services.
Speaking of a “highly seasonal” sector, the movement warned that, with the restrictions imposed, 83.2% of the activity in 2020 was lost.
“Despite the fact that the activity in the sector was legally feasible, the imposition of all restrictive measures, as well as the general climate of fear and mistrust, caused more than 80% of marriages scheduled in 2020 to be rescheduled for 2021 or canceled. “, he indicated.
This situation forced, on the one hand, companies to comply with the contracts of clients who wanted to carry out the events and, therefore, to renounce regimes such as ‘dismissal’ and, on the other hand, to enter into litigation with clients , He said.
According to data provided by the Movement of Companies of the Marriage Sector, this industry generates around four billion euros and represents 2% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
In addition, seven thousand companies and 150 thousand people depend on this sector, he emphasized.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 2,453,070 deaths worldwide, as a result of more than 110.7 million cases of infection, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 15,897 people died from 796,339 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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