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.

The Government have announced they will "extend the rules currently in force" in the fight against the pandemic in the continental territory, within the scope of the new state of emergency extended until January 15th.

It is being reported that the world is now facing the deadliest period of the coronavirus pandemic so far. The five worst days in terms of global Covid-19 deaths all came within the past 10 days, according to data from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA.