The Municipality of Silves informs that, within the scope of the Contract for Control Devices and Loss Reduction in the Water Supply System, the water supply will be interrupted this afternoon, September 1st, between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm, affecting the following areas:
Fires in Portugal have already caused nearly 26,000 hectares of burnt area in 2021, according to provisional data available on the website of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), which reveals an increase of more than 60% in two weeks.
Currently, a high-risk contact with an infected person still requires 14 days of quarantine, vaccinated or not, just as at the beginning of the pandemic. However, experts met last week and an alternative has been proposed and already delivered to the General Directorate of Health.
Placed away from home, Portuguese teachers have had three weeks to change their lives, many will be forced to leave their families and say that with such low wages and such high incomes they will have to “pay to be able to work”.
More than 100,000 more people were vaccinated in Portugal against Covid-19 this weekend, of which more than 80,000 are young people between 12 and 17 years old, according to official data.
The four Portuguese soldiers assigned to Kabul are on their way back to Portugal and should arrive in Madrid this afternoon. Arrival is scheduled for 15:45 at the Torrejón military base in Madrid.
The general director of Health (DGS), Graça Freitas, has announced that the administration of a third dose of vaccine against Covid-19 may be given to two different groups of the population.
The Portuguese government issued an order prohibiting the sale or providing of the so-called fast food and others classified as "products harmful to health", in public schools.
