Rapid antigen tests for the detection of SARS-CoV-2 will be able to be purchased, starting on Saturday, in pharmacies and places of sale of non-prescription drugs, according to news published today in Diário da República.
Under current rules, foreign travel from the UK is banned apart from for exceptional reasons, however, those in England could go abroad for holidays from 17th May, following a review on travel rules.
The deconfinement plan to be announced by the government later this week is awaited with bated breath by the tourism sector, one of the most affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Two new vehicles for organ transport were delivered by the Government yesterday, to the GNR, which has carried out more than 1,400 transports across the country in the last five years.
The Algarve region is no longer at high risk. The trend of decreasing cases observed throughout the country, as a result of the confinement measures with the closed schools, offered optimistic results: we are now the European country with the lowest rate of transmissibility.
The Portuguese ambassador to the UK, Manuel Lobo Antunes, had made a valiant bid to ‘save Portugal’s summer’ in terms of British visitors.
From today until Friday, the Algarve will be under yellow warning due to the forecast of sometimes heavy showers, accompanied by thunderstorms, according to the Portuguese Institute of the Sea and the Atmosphere (IPMA).
Yesterday, the Castro Marim City Council signed a contract to support Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Castro Marim, providing one million Euros for the construction of the Residential Structure for the Elderly and a Day Care centre for people with Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia.
