Covid-19 ‘not a question of two or three months’ – Health director
According to the director-general of Health, Graça Freitas, people have to "realise that this is not a matter of a fortnight, of two or three months."
Portugal’s director-general of Health has said that the outbreak of Covid-19 will not last a fortnight or two or three months, but the time until there is a vaccine, and that the Portuguese must remain mobilised.
“The Portuguese have to understand that we are not finishing anything, we are just starting a journey, it depends on us to counteract the activity of a virus that is extremely intelligent, extremely aggressive, both in the way it is transmitted and in the way it can cause serious disease. We cannot demobilise,” Graça Freitas said at the press conference that followed the release of the latest figures on Covid-19 disease in Portugal on Sunday.
According to the director-general of Health, people have to “realise that this is not a matter of a fortnight, of two or three months, until there is a vaccine this situation will last months”.
Portugal on Sunday had 119 deaths associated with Covid-19, 19 more than on Saturday, and 5,962 infected (792 more), according to the epidemiological bulletin released by the Directorate General of Health (DGS).
