We are facing a time of great complexities and uncertainties. The existing scientific evidence, but also everything that is still unknown to the scientific community about the new coronavirus, makes it urgent to combat Covid-19, reducing and minimizing its impacts on the health and life of the Portuguese, and placing as first priority the adoption of preventive measures, of expanding the capacity to respond of the National Health Service and protecting those most at risk while combating the spread of the disease and the necessary clinical response.

1. The epidemic outbreak of Covid-19 and the measures necessary to prevent and combat it, have brought to the fore the importance of defending public services, in particular a public, universal and just Social Security, an important pillar of our democracy.

1 - It is necessary to continue to respond to the serious public health problem that the country faces, namely with preventive measures and the enlargement of the capacity of response by the National Health Service. But it is also urgent to respond to the fast deterioration of the economic and social situation, namely the set of problems that are today posed to thousands of micro, small and medium-size entrepreneurs who constitute more than 99% of the Portuguese economic fabric.

The first word of the PCP is for the farmers, fishermen and workers.

For all those who persistently continue to sow seeds on the soil, plant their crops, fertilize, till, prune, dig, feed and care for their animals, for all agricultural workers, including the migrants who are so often under subhuman conditions and that the big landowners and middlemen leave to their fate on the first occasion, and those who continue to go to the sea, to ensure the supply of our markets and the food of the Portuguese people.