A 53 years old woman was rescued from the mud at the weekend by the National Maritime Authority (AMN) on the Boina stream, one of the tributaries of the Arade River, in Portimão.

It has been announced that from 17th May, Portugal will be on the Englands' Green List for travel.  The transport secretary said the UK's approach was "necessarily cautious", but the travel industry has said it is too cautious and called it a reopening of air travel "in name only".

Today, May 7th, the municipality of Portimão will go directly to phase 4 of the deconfinement plan, due to "the collective effort of the community, which has allowed the incidence of coronavirus to drastically decrease in the municipality" in the last 14 days.

Gonçalo Silva, a former student at the Hotel and Tourism School of Portimão, has been distinguished by the Le Cordon Bleu School in Paris, with the Major Promotion diploma, awarded to the best student of the course.

According to yesterdays' DGS epidemiological bulletin, the incidence of Covid-19 per 100 thousand inhabitants and the R (t), the transmissibility index, continue to fall in Portugal.

All CVC's, or dedicated Covid Vaccination Centres in the Algarve are now functioning. Here is a list of the centres and their location. 

A new project, Link-a-ring, has been launched in Portimão, the first Commercial Kitchens Co-working space in the Algarve, renting foreclosed restaurants, and giving those looking to open a takeaway or delivery service the chance of going to market much faster and with low risk.

On 31st December 2020, the transition period for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit) ended. As of 1st January 2021, the appointment of a tax representative in Portugal by individual and collective taxpayers, with tax domicile in the United Kingdom, became mandatory. Non-residents need to appoint a fiscal representative in Portugal. They usually have 60 days within which to do this, but exceptionally the Portuguese government has now extended the deadline until 30 June 2022.