Lisbon, 3 Feb (EFE) .- Portugal receives a military team of 26 paramedics sent by the Government of Germany to intensify attention in the intensive care units of hospitals, disrupted by the pandemic.
The contingent includes six medicines and sanitary ware with 50 respirators, 150 extraction bombs and 150 beds.
Although the experts point out that the contagious pike is extinct in the last few days and that a progressive phase of virus expansion is expected, it also underlines the need to increase the capacity of intensive care areas.
According to the President of the Intensive Care Specialists of the Medical College, José Artur Paiva, the number of intensive care units must pass from the 1,320 news to the 1,500 to avoid the collapse.
Today we also begin the second phase of the evacuation, which will take place in the health centers, where they will receive the dose of the major people of 80 years and 50 with severe pathologies.
In this list of priorities, the sanitary authorities include politicians, alcadas and high cargoes, a polemical decision that will pave the way for a sum of tens of thousands of denunciations for the application of vacancies.
Portugal announced March 5,540 new contagios, the worst figure in this month, and 260 deaths, the lowest of the last eight days.
According to the General Directorate of Health (DGS), since the pandemic began, Portugal has 731,861 positives, of which 167,000 are active, and 13,017 are declining.
Portugal is confined, with the frontier blinded and all the teachers center closed. EFE