The Council of Ministers approved today, 15 July, the sale in supermarkets of rapid antigen tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2, the so-called self-tests, announced the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva.
"The Government today approved a decree-law that allows the sale of self-tests in supermarkets," said the minister at the press conference after the end of the Council of Ministers meeting.
According to the official, the measure will reinforce the identification of positive cases of Covid-19, at a time when Portugal remains in the red zone of the risk matrix and the epidemiological situation continues to worry the executive.
"We are continuing what I have been calling attention to in recent weeks here, which is a race against time between the vaccination process that is expanding daily and the evolution of the pandemic", stressed Mariana Vieira da Silva, stating that it is necessary, therefore, “an insistence on the process of testing, identifying positives and their isolation”.
“When we look at the situation of our country in the risk matrix, we see that the situation continues to deteriorate. Today on the continent we have an incidence [of new cases of infection] of 346,5 per 100 inhabitants and a rate of transmission (Rt) [of the virus] of 1,15», he added.
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