Portugal unable to progress with easing of lockdown By TPN/Lusa, in News, COVID-19 · 25-06-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
The Minister of the Presidency has announced that there are no conditions to continue the easing of lockdown plan in Portugal, taking into account that the country is “clearly in the red zone” of the pandemic control risk matrix.
“Portugal is, at this moment, clearly in the red zone of our matrix, so there are no conditions to continue the planned easing of lockdown plan”, said Mariana Vieira da Silva, at the end of the Council of Ministers.
According to her, the incidence of new cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants is currently at 129.6 and the virus transmissibility index (Rt) at 1.18 in continental territory.
The new measures taken by the Government under the new easing of lockdown phase came into force on Thursday, having been brought forward in relation to the.
The Deputy Secretary of State and Health, António Lacerda Sales, announced on 9 June that the municipalities of Lisbon and Braga will not advance to the next.
Experts and politicians meet today to analyse pandemic developments
Portugal’s President, head of Parliament, the Prime Minister and party representatives are meeting today with public health experts from various institutions to analyse the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic in the country
The session on the “epidemiological situation of covid-19 in Portugal” was scheduled to start at 10am at drugs watchdog Infarmed’s headquarters in Lisbon, and also by videoconference.
The 20th meeting of experts takes place in the week in which the Government will decide whether Portugal can advance to the fourth and final phase of the easing of lockdown plan, which is scheduled to start on May 3rd.