Makro Portugal has announced that its doors are open to the general public from today until the 30th of January. The company's decision follows the "new declaration of a State of National Emergency and in line with the Government's guidelines".

Yesterday, the Judiciary Police (PJ) detained two men suspected of being the perpetrators of violent robberies in isolated locations in the municipalities of Faro, Loulé and Tavira.

President of the Safe Communities Portugal association, David Thomas, has been awarded an MBE for his services to Public Safety and to British Nationals in Portugal.

The President of the Republic has today decreed the modification of the state of emergency in force and its confirmed its renewal for another fifteen days, until January 30th, to allow measures to contain the Covid-19.

The President of the Republic, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, will consult this afternoon with political parties with parliamentary seats over the telephone on the renewal of the state of emergency after testing positive for Covid-19 yesterday.

An English man was found dead yesterday, Monday morning, by the PSP, inside his motorhome parked by the Gilão river in Tavira.

At the beginning of the so-called 3rd wave of Covid-19, the number of deaths in the Algarve is growing slightly more than at the national level, although the region's hospitals are among the least overcrowded in the country.

The popular Algarve green area of the Aldeia Nova trail and the route from Vila Real de Santo António to Monte Gordo have been improved improved with the placement of new signs.