The Government will invest 441 million euros to increase water efficiency and drought adaptation processes in the Algarve, Alentejo and Madeira, according to Portugal's Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).
Portugal registered 90 deaths related to Covid-19 yesterday and 1,303 new cases of infection, according to the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).
The Municipality of Albufeira collected around 75 tons of waste last week, in the area adjacent to the Bus Terminal. The operation was the result of a cleaning action in that area, over four days.
There is so much uncertainty about Covid-19 that it’s impossible to predict how tourism will pan out in Portugal or anywhere else this year, but there are pieces of positive information that give rise for some optimism.
Today, health organizations were optimistic about the evolution of Covid-19 in the Algarve, due to the reduction in the number of new cases and hospitalizations and the beginning of vaccinations.
Ana Cristina Coelho, professor and researcher at the University of Algarve, led an investigation into the decline of the cork oak that was recently published in the prestigious magazine PLOS ONE.
On Monday this week, the municipality of Lagoa introduced 17 new electric vehicles in to circulation, to support its various municipal services.
Doubts remain about the effectiveness of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine against Covid-19, but far more doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are currently available in Portugal.
