Irresponsabilidade total no Porto.
Enquanto existem zonas no Reino Unido a serem isoladas devido a um novo surto da variante Indiana do Covid, 16.500 adeptos 'desbundam' em massa no centro do Porto sem máscaras e sem distanciamento físico, numa rebaldaria total. Pobre Portugal, dependente de tudo e de todos !
OVOODOCORVO
Marcelo: “Não é possível dizer” que adeptos “vêm em bolha
e depois não vêm”
“Não se pode dizer que temos que obedecer às regras,
fixa-se um limite e depois o limite já não é esse, é outro”, afirmou Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa sobre a presença de adeptos ingleses em Portugal para a final
da Liga dos Campeões. A maioria dos 16.500 adeptos chegou esta manhã e a NAV
atribuiu cerca de 500 voos entre 27 e 31 de Maio para o aeroporto do Porto
ligados ao evento.
In English: (Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is the
President of the Republic.)
Marcelo: "Can not say" that supporters
"come in bubble and then do not come"
"You can't say we have to obey the rules, a
limit is set and then that's not the limit, it's another one," Marcelo
Rebelo de Sousa said of the presence of English fans in Portugal for the
Champions League final. Most of the 16,500 fans arrived this morning and NAV
allocated about 500 flights between 27 and 31 May to Porto airport linked to
the event.
Porto locals’ anger as Covid rules eased for
Champions League final fans
Residents fear spike of infections as supporters
arrive
Around 40 flights landing from England on Saturday
Sat 29 May
2021 15.02 BST
A
last-minute decision to relax Covid-19 safety rules for Saturday’s Champions
League final has angered locals as hundreds of English fans not wearing masks
packed Porto’s riverside bars on Friday night.
European
football’s governing body Uefa moved the final between English clubs Manchester
City and Chelsea from Istanbul to Porto to allow fans to travel to the match
under Covid-19 restrictions. Some Porto residents fear a spike in infections
because of the highly contagious coronavirus variant spreading in parts of
England after first being identified in India. Others are upset that foreign
fans can go into the stadium but locals have been banned from attending matches
for months.
“If they
open [the stadiums] for the English, they should open [them] for all,” said
Alexandre Magalhaes, walking through Porto, which was packed with fans.
Portugal’s
government initially said English fans must fly in only on the day of the
match, stay in a “bubble” and fly home straight after the game. But authorities
dropped the requirement for fans to stay in bubbles on Thursday and lifted
restrictions on movement. “If these [new rules] are true I will not comply with
any more lockdowns,” one Twitter user wrote. Another wrote: “This is a shame
for everyone who continues to comply with health rules.” Portugal imposed a
lockdown in January after a surge in cases but rules have since been eased.
By
mid-afternoon on Saturday, planes packed with excited supporters were touching
down every five minutes at Porto’s airport. Around 40 flights from England were
expected during the day.
“Hopefully
that plane is bouncing on the way back,” said Manchester City fan Neal, who
travelled to Porto with his father and will head back home in the early hours
of Sunday on a charter flight. “It’s a great atmosphere.” Upon arrival,
stewards directed fans from the two teams to opposite sides of the airport,
where rows of buses waited to drive them to the city centre where fan zones
were set up.
Before
hopping on the bus, fans received a bright yellow bracelet to show they have
tested negative for Covid-19. “We will enjoy the sunshine, the hospitality … we
love this city,” said Chelsea fan Chris, who said he had received two doses of
the vaccine.
Hundreds of
maskless fans flooded the bars by Porto’s Douro river on Friday night, drinking
beer and chanting team slogans as police officers kept a close eye on them.
There were minor scuffles between the supporters. Although the fans breached
coronavirus rules in place to reduce the risk of contagion, which make it
compulsory to wear a mask in crowded areas, police officers on the ground did
not enforce mask-wearing.
Police
commander Paula Peneda told a news conference that authorities were expecting
many English fans without a ticket in the city on Saturday but could not
specify a number. Authorities said they could not stop fans moving around
because British tourists are now allowed in and out of Portugal if they present
a negative PCR test.
Metropolitan
police superintendent Lysander Strong said two fan zones with a capacity for
6,000 people each – one for both teams – would be set up in the city. From 8am
to 6pm, the fan zones will only be open to ticket holders who will then be
transported to the stadium. The zones will then open to those without a ticket.
Consumption of beer is allowed and all supporters must present a negative
Covid-19 test to access the fan zones. “We encourage all English supporters
here to contribute to an orderly environment,” Strong said.
Cases of Indian variant double in a week putting
end of restrictions in doubt
Sean
Morrison
Fri, 28 May
2021, 6:31 am·4-min read
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/end-coronavirus-restrictions-possibly-risk-235410076.html
(PA Wire)
Cases of the Indian variant have doubled in a week
leading to fresh doubts over the ending of Covid restrictions in England next
month.
Boris
Johnson warned that freedom from restrictions on June 21 may have to wait as it
emerged three-quarters of new cases are now the Indian mutation.
Ministers
are remaining cautious on the prospect of all measures being scrapped in
England on June 21, as set out in the Prime Minister’s road map, although
hospital admissions remain flat.
Officials
are examining the data after confirmed cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19
reached almost 7,000. It is now the dominant strain in the UK, one expert said.
Epidemiologist
Professor Neil Ferguson said the planned unlocking next month now “hangs in the
balance” due to the growth of the variant of concern.
The Prime
Minister told reporters on Thursday he “didn’t see anything currently in the
data” to divert from next month’s target, adding: “But we may need to wait.”
Health
Secretary Matt Hancock said at a press briefing on Thursday “as many as
three-quarters” of all new cases are now of the Indian variant, and urged
vigilance.
The Cabinet
minister also told MPs it was too early to say whether the full lifting of
restrictions will go ahead as the Government waits to see what happens with
hospital admissions.
(PA Wire)
(PA Wire)
Public
Health England (PHE) put the hospital admission rate for Covid-19 at 0.79 per
100,000 people in the week to May 23, compared to 0.75 per 100,000 in the
previous week.
Dr Yvonne
Doyle, medical director at PHE, said that, while Covid infection rates had
risen across most age groups and regions, “encouragingly the number in
hospitals across the country remains low”.
Mr Hancock
said there were “early signs” that coronavirus rates in Indian variant hotspot
town Bolton were starting to “cap out”, sparking hope that efforts to surge
test and vaccinate were having an impact.
It comes
after Imperial College London’s Prof Ferguson, whose modelling was instrumental
to the UK locking down in March 2020, said the B.1.617 mutation from south-east
Asia was now “the dominant strain” in the UK and that the full reopening of
society on June 21 “hangs in the balance”.
Epidemiologist
and Government adviser Professor John Edmunds also warned on ITV’s Peston this
week that it looked “a little bit risky” to be relaxing all restrictions in
just over three weeks time.
Dr Jenny
Harries chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency, said she agreed with
Prof Ferguson’s reading of the situation and admitted the numbers had become
“quite worrying”.
“If you
just look at the pure data which is out today it looks quite worrying,” she
told a Downing Street press conference.
“We had
3,535 cases of the 617.2 last week, and we have just about double that, 6,959,
now.”
She said it
was “on the cusp at the moment” over whether rising cases reflected the variant
taking off or whether there was a rise because more cases are being hunted for
and detected, with more socialising also now permitted.
“The good
news, of course, is we are not seeing that generally translate into increased
cases of hospitalisation and definitely not into deaths,” Dr Harries added.
“So the key
message there is … if we can hold it while the vaccination programme gets
rolled out, we stand a much better chance of getting through this session.”
In England,
6,180 cases of the Indian variant have been confirmed, along with 702 in
Scotland, 58 in Wales and 19 in Northern Ireland.
Mr Hancock
said the increase in cases of the Indian variant remained focused in “hotspots”
where surge testing and vaccinations were taking place.
He added
that of the 49 people in hospital with coronavirus in Bolton, only five have
had both doses of vaccine.
“So when
you get the call, get the jab, and make sure you come forward for your second
doses so you can get the maximum possible protection,” he said.
“The
vaccine is severing the link between cases and hospitalisations and deaths from
coronavirus.”
A guarda pretoriana de António Costa
28/05/2021
Vítor Rainho
https://ionline.sapo.pt/artigo/736013/a-guarda-pretoriana-de-antonio-costa?seccao=Opini%C3%A3o_i
Até os próprios
responsáveis do turismo do Norte explicaram que o aeroporto Sá Carneiro não tem
capacidade para receber tantos adeptos num só dia, como disse a ministra. Mas o
que interessa essa como outras mentiras?
É preciso
reconhecer que o Governo de António Costa é único, pois não há memória de um
Executivo ter cometido tantas gafes públicas e continuar na maior, segundo as
sondagens. E não é preciso recordar os casos dos incêndios, de Tancos e tantos
outros. Vamos aos mais recentes.
Se o primeiro-ministro
teve a maior cara de pau para desmentir os especialistas de saúde, dizendo que
o aumento de casos de covid em Lisboa nada teve a ver com os festejos do
Sporting, o que dizer da ministra da Presidência, Mariana Vieira da Silva, que
afirmou alto e bom som que os adeptos ingleses que vêm ver a final da Liga dos
Campeões vão estar todos numa bolha, chegando no dia do encontro, seguindo de
imediato para o estádio do Dragão e mal termine o encontro são levados para o
aeroporto. Como é possível mentir-se desta maneira, já que todos vimos os
adeptos do Manchester City e do Chelsea há dias a beberem com uma sede inaudita
girafas de cerveja na Baixa do Porto?
Até os próprios
responsáveis do turismo do Norte explicaram que o aeroporto Sá Carneiro não tem
capacidade para receber tantos adeptos num só dia, como disse a ministra. Mas o
que interessa essa como outras mentiras? O Governo já está a atingir um
estatuto de inimputabilidade, em que pode fazer o que muito bem lhe aprouver
que continua tudo na maior.
José Sócrates,
reconheçamos, bem tentou ter tantos adeptos na comunicação social, mas foi um
‘menino’ ao pé de António Costa. O atual primeiro-ministro tem uma espécie de
guarda pretoriana que o protege e ataca os adversários com um sorriso nos
lábios que até faz dó. Tudo serve para malhar na oposição e André Ventura é o
melhor meio para se alcançar esse propósito.
Encostando-se o
líder do Chega ao PSD e ao CDS entendem que prejudicam esses partidos e que
favorecem o Governo. Mas acho que estão completamente enganados. Estão a dar
gás a Ventura, que poderá ter um resultado histórico... O que dirão a seguir?
Que a culpa foi dos portugueses que não se reviram no que lhes vendem todos os
dias?
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