Home » News » “We have to be very disciplined and cohesive. We are all part of the solution.” Here comes “possible normality”, says Graça Freitas – Actualidade

“We have to be very disciplined and cohesive. We are all part of the solution.” Here comes “possible normality”, says Graça Freitas – Actualidade

In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered 181 new cases of coronavirus infection, a growth of only one percent that surprised the several hundreds of new cases that were registered from day to day. So that there would be no cause for confusion, Graça Freitas guaranteed that the value was confirmed, stressing that “almost the whole country” was questioned, stressing, however, that it is still a number that has to be “looked at carefully”.

These days the good news is always involved in a plate of cautionary warnings, after all, as stated by the General Secretary of Health at the usual daily conference of the Directorate-General for Health, it is important “that we do not lose the work of the last few weeks “.

However, the values ​​of the famous curve begin to delineate an opening path towards normality, “possible normality”, says the director general, with “many changes to what was our routine before the appearance of the new virus and the disease that We will have to balance, go back to normal as possible, but it will have to be performed with other types of routines, other practices that are measures to prevent contagion “.

Graça Freitas underlined that “we must try to return to our social and economic activity, but in a balanced way”, mentioning that the containment measures have fulfilled their function.

“We are going to lift the measures and, at the same time, we have to counteract the activity of the virus,” he said, referring to the importance of continuing to maintain isolation and social distance, as well as continuing to comply with hand hygiene measures, the use of barrier protections and respiratory etiquette. “We will have to incorporate this into our lives”, he stresses, stating that “we have to be very disciplined and cohesive”. “We are all part of the solution”, he says.

Test, test, test (now faster and faster)

The “increase in the number of tests is not reflected in a proportional increase in positive samples”, António Sales began by saying, thus explaining the criticism often stated that more tests would result in a natural increase in the number of confirmed cases.

The Secretary of State for Health also took the opportunity to announce that Portugal will have five thousand rapid tests that will allow to obtain a result in about an hour. However, their use will have specific indications with António Sales stressing that they should be used “preferably in a hospital environment”, in “emergency, pre-surgery or oncology treatments” services.

Since March 1, 224 thousand tests have been carried out, of which “10.5% tested positive”.

Today Portugal records 657 deaths associated with covid-19, 28 more than on Thursday, and 19,022 infected (181 more), according to the epidemiological bulletin released today by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).

Comparing with Thursday’s data, which recorded 629 deaths, today there was a percentage increase of 4.5%.

Regarding the number of confirmed cases of infection with the new coronavirus, DGS data show that there are 181 more cases than on Thursday, representing an increase of 0.96%.

The North region is the one with the highest number of deaths (377), followed by the Center (148), the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley (119), the Algarve (9) of the Azores (4), says the situation report epidemiological data, with data updated until midnight on Thursday.

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.