The new period of state of emergency in Portugal, which runs until December 23, started at 00:00 today, with a total of 113 Portuguese counties at risk of extremely high or very high covid-19 transmission.

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa announced yesterday that he will re-run for office as President of the Republic, in the elections of January 24, 2021.

Yesterday marked 9 years of tolls on Via do Infante (A22), a "very negative and unfair for the Algarve" event introduced by the PSD / CDS government, with the support of the PS, on December 8, 2011.

Of the six counties in the Algarve that were included in Covid-19's list of high-risk transmission counties, Albufeira left, but Monchique has now entered, a municipality that had no active cases last month.

The road that connects Guia to Vale Parra, in Albufeira, has been waiting for about four months for the completion of the repaving works, due to problems with the contractor. The latter is imprisoned for matters “parallel to the autarchy" the mayor, José Carlos Rolo said.

The Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa has today announced measures to combat Covid-19 within the framework of the current decree of state of emergency, which will be effective until January 7, including the Christmas and New Year periods.

Vaccines are a relevant tool in the fight against covid-19 and allow us to envision the end of the pandemic, but all other efforts are still necessary, the World Health Organization defended today. (WHO).

This weeks Portuguese Covid-19 virus ‘update’ has come in with the lowest number of new infections registered in the last six weeks.