A study carried out as part of Lagos Council’s plan to assess the construction potential in an area of the municipality has confirmed the environmental and landscape interest of the Lagos shrubland which citizens of the municipality have been calling for the Council to preserve.
Isilda Gomes, Mayor of Portimão today confirmed to journalists that there are now five cases of Covid-19 that have been diagnosed in the city, thus taking the region’s total number up to 5, as all cases have been within this single municipality.
Social Democrat (PSD) MP Rui Cristina has brought to the attention of the Minister of Justice Francisca Van Dunem, in a hearing held on Tuesday at the Assembly of the Republic "the anomalous functioning of the Land, Commercial and Automobile Registry Conservatory of Portimão".
The Association of Hospitality of Portugal (AHP) foresees tourist revenue losses between 500 and 800 million euros, between March 1st and June 30th, 2020, according to a survey of its associates, presented today.
The University of the Algarve (UAlg) has just announced the suspension of all classroom activities until March 27th due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
The Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL) met today, Thursday, March 12, 2020, to agree on positions regarding the reinforcement of preventive measures against Covid-19. The meeting of Algarvian mayors “call, in the first instance, the entire population of the Algarve to adhere their habits and behaviors to the recommendations of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS), namely the basic rules of handwashing, social distance, and avoiding unnecessary travel to events or services, with a view to protecting their own safety and to stop the spread of the virus”.
José de Oliveira e Costa – the former president of BPN bank that collapsed as a result of endemic corruption within it – has died, aged 84, having never served a day of his 15-year jail term.
Portugal is to start taking in unaccompanied child refugees held in overcrowded camps on the Greek islands.
