Having seized a total of 28 bales on Friday, the Maritime Police have seized another 9 bales of drugs in Albufeira and Lagoa, totalling 315 kilos of hashish from several Algarve beaches over the weekend.

The Portuguese government have decided to bring forward the containment period that was initially planned to start on January 2nd, to December 25th.

André Peralta Santos, former Director of Information and Analysis Services at DGS, is warning of an explosion of cases over the Christmas weekend and proposes "closing sites where there is a risk of over-dissemination".

Five pickpockets, four women and one man, all from the same family and who worked in groups across the country, were arrested by the PSP yesterday.

According to the provisional results of the 2021 Census, released last Thursday by the National Statistics Institute (INE), foreigners currently make up 5.3% of the population residing in Portugal, but 14.7% in the Algarve.

The General Directorate of Health (DGS) announced this morning that more than 88,000 children in Portugal were vaccinated over the weekend against covid-19.

The 1st school term ends today and after three months of classes around 10,000 students are still without a teacher in some subjects, reflecting the same old worrying problem once again.

With some European countries recently recording the most cases for 2 years, almost all countries in the European Union,  UK included, have already re-introduced some containment measures to prevent family get-togethers (which have not yet been banned in any country yet) in an effort to prevent additional pressure on health systems.