Bars and nightclubs will open again on Friday night (Jan 14th), after another three-week closure due to Covid-19, with customers without a booster dose of the vaccine having to test negative to get in.

On the first day of opening for complaints of sexual abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church, the telephone line “was almost always filled” and by the end of the afternoon “about 50 testimonies” had already been validated.

With the emergence of the Ómicron variant that caused the number of infections to skyrocket on a global scale, "and given the proximity of the event , which does not allow for the timely planning of its programming", Loulé council have announced the cancellation of the 2022 edition of the Loulé Carnival parade.

The GNR have detained a 29-year-old man in Silves for drug trafficking after stopping his vehicle for a routine road inspection.

The European Commission have announced that more than 80% of the adult population of EU is fully vaccinated against Covid-19, but are calling for “social solidarity” to those who have not yet been inoculated, to combat contagious variants such as Ómicron.

The heavy rain that fell in the Algarve over the festive period caused small floods in some urban areas, but still barely filled the six dams in the region.