Portugal's armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Residents sit at a distance from each other in the television room of the care home where they live, in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portuguese Air Force colonel Maria Salazar wears a COVID-19 Task Force badge on her shoulder while posing for a photo at the armed forces chiefs of staff headquarters in Lisbon, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, the government mobilized all the resources it could. Salazar, a physician, swiftly drew up a nationwide program to train care home staff at their workplace. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Jose Mendonca, 92, talks with his daughter Isabel, behind a plexiglas screen, during a visit at the care home where he lives, in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Army Sgt. Ari Silva, background left, gives a talk on COVID-19 safety procedures to a care home staff in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

A resident, left, tells another one, background right, to wear his face mask properly covering the nose at the care home where they live, in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Technical director Diana Correia, center, listens to one of the residents at her care home in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes like Correia's, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portuguese Air Force nurse Nuno Carvalho hosts an online COVID-19 Q&A session with care home staff, from an office at the armed forces chiefs of staff headquarters in Lisbon, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Technical director Diana Correia visits one of the bed-ridden residents at her care home in Amadora, outside Lisbon, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. As a resurgence of the pandemic in the fall looked set to overwhelm Portuguese care homes like Correia's, and the country's public health service struggled to cope, the government mobilized all the resources it could. That included deploying military units. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)