The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained in Albufeira two men suspected of defrauding hundreds of people with the fictitious resale of holiday weeks in the Algarve.

Portugal registered more than 58,000 new cases of infection in the last month, a period in which admissions to intensive care increased by 122%, but with the number of deaths having only increased by 0.8%.

The Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep announced yesterday that non-clinical trials of its vaccine against the Coronavirus have ended and have shown “high safety and efficacy” against a lethal infection by SARS-CoV-2.

At a presentation of the “Reactivate tourism. Build the future” programme in Ponta Delgada, the president of Portugal’s tourist board, Luís Araújo has said that tourism in Portugal should reach pre-pandemic levels of 2019 by 2023.

An international tobacco smuggling network in Portugal and Spain was finally dismantled yesterday by the GNR, with 23 people suspected of being involved.

Opening in the second half of July in Vilamoura, "My Candy Beach” by The Sweet Art Museum & Doma is a unique and creative space which promises to be the most desired space in the Algarve.

The balance of the number of patients admitted to hospitals in the Algarve points to the significant increase in younger age groups in cases of Covid-19 infections in recent weeks. The chairman of the board of directors of the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve (CHUA) says that the trend is to get worse, stressing that there are “a greater number of young inpatients who are ill, who are not known if they will fully recover, or if they are going to have reoccurences”.