The President of the Republic today considered that, if the containment of the spread of Covid-19 in April goes as expected, May could be a "month of transition" for a "progressive resumption of social and economic life."
Speaking to journalists at the end of another technical session on the evolution of the epidemiological situation of Covid-19 in Portugal, at Infarmed, in Lisbon, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa confirmed that "everything is moving forward" towards a renewal of the state of emergency at the end From this week.
According to the President of the Republic, the data recorded up to this stage in April allow "to look at May" as "an already different month, which is already a month of progressive transition".
«If April runs to the end as we hope, then in May the Portuguese will start to get used to the idea of living socially with the reality of a virus that was defeated in what represented a serious, or, even at the beginning, very serious risk. , for Portuguese society, and becomes a fact of everyday life», said the head of state.
Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa added that, «naturally, it is a transition that, in Portugal, as in other European countries, will have to be made with caution, with the same attitudes that the Portuguese have had, of seriousness, health protection, distance in the coexistence with others, but with a progressive recovery of social and economic life».
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