Pró Barrocal Algarvio (PROBAAL) Group of Environmental Defence is calling for an end to the prospecting of 200 hectares of land to build a solar panel farm, which they believe will be harmful to the environment, destroying aquifers, fauna and flora.
The project for Mobile Vaccination Units against Covid-19, initiated in the North, now extends to the rest of the country to reach people with less access to vaccination centres more quickly, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation have announced.
The “Vaccines Report for Covid-19” by the National Medicines Authority (Infarmed), released at the end of last week, shows Portugal has seen no deaths as a result of having the Covid vaccine, but 34 deaths after inoculation.
The Portimão Judiciary Police (PJ) have arrested a 36-year-old man on strong evidence of two acts of rape, one of them attempted rape, carried out last week.
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.
