The health region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley registered 323 more infections in the last 24 hours. This area thus dominates most of the 350 new cases that emerged in Portugal until midnight.
It is a “complex situation”, with “several and diverse causes”, explained the director-general of Health. There are outbreaks in factories, homes, works and neighborhoods, in addition to the community circulation of the virus.
“There are outbreaks associated with different types,” said Graça Freitas, in response to journalists.
“The pattern in Lisbon is for young adults and not all situations are linked to companies, many of these are within the community. There is a tendency to alleviate behavior”.
“Young people tend to have a mild illness, but this is not a finding. And even if they have a mild illness (…) they can transmit [a doença] to risk groups, older people, their relatives, parents, grandparents, uncles and will perpetuate the transmission “, he warned, discouraging agglomerations and gatherings.
“Behaviors that endanger public health cannot continue to be tolerated,” he said, calling on the young population “to change their behavior”, keeping their distance and avoiding gatherings.
In the case of workers, the director-general of Health recalls that employers “have obligations” that the Ministry of Health cannot replace.
Regarding shopping centers, Graça Freitas refers the decision to the Council of Ministers that this Friday runs, but explains that “the risk depends on the behavior”.
“Even with shopping centers closed, there is no avoiding large gatherings in other spaces,” he said, giving as an example coffee shops and even outdoor spaces.
“In recent days there has been a concentration of people in Lisbon above the desirable”.
The Mayor of Lisbon, Fernando Medina, stated that it is “natural” that shopping centers in Lisbon do not open now because they are spaces with “great concentration of people”.
Today Portugal records 1,383 deaths related to covid-19, 14 more than on Thursday and 31,946 infected, 350 more, according to the epidemiological bulletin released by the Directorate-General for Health.
There are also 17 new hospitalizations, the largest increase in hospitalizations since May 7, and another hospitalized in intensive care units. There was also an increase of 274 recovered cases, now totaling 18,911.
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