At Faro Airport, queues were a problem for some tourists at the weekend. On Saturday it was in queues in passport control, for travellers who do not belong to the Schengen area. On Sunday, it was the wait to do their Covid-19 tests at the airport, before travelling.
Self-scheduling of vaccinations against Covid-19 is now available to people aged 50 and over on the Internet portal of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
A total of 27 children were transported to the Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve, in Faro yesterday, "with symptoms of food poisoning", but without the need for hospitalisation.
The Chinese authorities have announced today the suspension of the air link between Portugal and China, for a period of two weeks, after detecting seven cases of Covid-19, on May 14th, on a flight from Lisbon.
Last night, the Albufeira GNR seized a bottle of nitrous oxide, known as "laughing gas", from an Albufeira nightclub.
More than half a million vaccines against Covid-19 were administered in the last week in Portugal, which has 34% of the population with the first dose taken, said today the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
The Government have announced that they will accelerate vaccination against Covid-19 "at a national level", and not just in Lisbon, extending it to people over 40 from June 6th, and over 30 years old from June 20th.
57 taxi drivers from Albufeira have received training in Basic Life Support using Automatic External Defibrillation (SBV-DAE), at the Voluntary Fire Station, Albufeira.
