The GNR arrested a 26-year-old man yesterday the A22 exit to Portimão, for driving without a legal license, shortly after he posted a video on Facebook about it.

In Portugal, the Iberian lynx release season begins today, with the release of two of seven young lynx of a species considered “Critically Endangered” Portugal being released, in a program that “will continue until the end of the month, in the reintroduction area of ​​the Guadiana Valley ”.

The body of a 60-year-old man was found next to the Algibre stream, in Paderne, at the weekend. The authorities were alerted at 12:08 on Saturday by a citizen who was walking along the bank of the stream and came across the corpse.

In contrast to the recent record high Covid infection and death rates in Portugal, vaccinations have been slow to start, but are now expected to accelerate.

Following an investigation related to drug trafficking that lasted six months, Faro Police have arrested a 20-year-old man for drug trafficking in the municipality of São Brás de Alportel.

Entire populations are not infected and should not all be labelled as ‘high-risk’, says The World Travel & Tourism Council,  calling for governments to abandon the concept of ‘high-risk countries’ and instead focus on how individual ‘high-risk travellers’ are treated at borders. 

Portuguese hotels, which at the moment are mostly closed, are being made available to help hospitals deal with the acute phase that the Covid-19 outbreak is reaching,  opening the facilities to receive patients with mild symptoms - in turn relieving health structures and prevent people who are hospitalized from becoming infected, as they are in an environment with a higher viral load.

The Municipality of Albufeira has started work on the resurfacing of Estrada de Santa Eulália and adjacent streets, a project that involves an investment of more than half a million Euros.