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.
The centres to be created to speed up the population's vaccination against Covid-19 must have the capacity to vaccinate around 50 people per hour, an emergency room and a doctor in case of adverse reactions.
The Institute of Housing and Urban Rehabilitation (IHRU) has signed 26 agreements with 25 municipalities, for the accommodation of 15 thousand families, the Government announced yesterday.
As part of the road safety campaign “Phone Off” that took place over the last seven days, the security forces recorded 16,177 infractions, of which 1,164 were related to the use of the mobile phone while driving.
Since taking over the presidency of the Council of the European Union from Germany at the start of this year, Portugal has emphasised that climate change is “an existential threat to humanity” and has given the subject top priority in the run-up to November’s crucial United Nations COP-26 summit in Glasgow.
