Portugal resumes flights with Mozambique with imposition of anti-covid tests and quarantine
O Government Portuguese go lift the block tax on November 29 at Mozambique regular flights towards Lisbon. But have three conditions in order to travel to Portugal.
The measure had been taken because of the emergence in South Africa of the omicron, a worrying variant of the virus SARS-CoV-2, a cause of Covid-19.
“We are preparing the alteration of the order that will allow it, being certain that we will maintain these three precautions, for which we ask everyone’s understanding: negative test requirement to Covid to board; the carrying out of a new test already in Portugal upon disembarkation; and also the realization of quarantine“, said the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to RTP.
the ad of Augusto Santos Silva succeeds the distinction expressed Thursday by the prime minister to the restriction of flights.
António Costa even explained as “unacceptable” the suspension of connections between Maputo and Lisbon “because the situation does not justify it”, giving as an example the humanitarian flights.
“We are not in favor of nor do we believe that the restriction of flights is an effective measure”, said the head of the Government, defending that “the test is the most effective way to detect infected people”, even, he underlined, as they are “asymptomatic “.
Portugal, meanwhile, announced this Friday another 3,742 infections diagnosed in 24 hours and the record of another 16 deaths in the framework of SARS-CoV-2.
The epidemiological bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) records 947 “covid patients” hospitalized, 14 beds are less occupied facing Thursday, five of them also released in intensive care, where it maintains 137 inpatients.
Existing data on the new VdP, first identified in South Africa on November 19, update that Omicron may be more transmissible than all previous strains, but has proved less severe in terms of the infection.
The vast majority of cases are people with mild symptoms or asymptomatic, with a greater number of reinfections being another worrying aspect that is also motivating the race to strengthen the primary vaccination process, something the World Health Organization (WHO) says not be needed.