The Irish government’s recently publish safe travel list consists of a mere 13 European countries, and two national territories (Gibraltar and Greenland), all of which have an equal or lesser number of coronavirus cases per 100,000 inhabitants than Ireland: Malta, Finland, Norway, Italy, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Slovakia, Greece, Monaco and San Marino.
The Socialist Party (PS) of the Algarve today publicly celebrated Prime Minister António Costa's commitment to the historic agreement reached this morning in Brussels by the European Council.
The €300 million program to boost the Algarve’s economy, announced by the Government earlier today has been received as "good news" by most, though there are some who worry that the sum may not be enough for the region to combat the COVID-19 economic crisis as effectively as hoped.
Almost the entire territory of mainland Portugal today presented a ‘maximum’, ‘very high’ or ‘high risk of fire, according to the Institute of Sea and Atmosphere, on a day in which the country has been subjected to high temperatures, thunderstorms, and strong wind.
UK health authorities handling the ongoing pandemic have looked to Portugal to talk about mass screening Covid-19 testing that has aided in preventing the spread of the disease in Portugal, and helped reduce death rates, despite the UK still not endorsing travel to the country by leaving it off of its recent air bridge list.
The 30 hospital ventilators acquired by the Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve and offered to the Algarve University Hospital Centre (CHUA) "have technical problems" that prevent them from functioning, admitted today the president of the association.
"I think the agreement reached is a good agreement, it was at the limit of what would make this fund sufficiently robust fund to respond to this first phase of the crisis. And, in the combination of loans and grants, I think we will be left with a fund that will have around 700 billion euros. It is in any case a historic step to set up a fund of this nature based on the issuance of debt by the Commission", said António Costa.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) today conducted a major operation targeting ozone therapy clinics. At stake are crimes of active and passive corruption, qualified fraud, forgery of documents, and wilful spread of disease.
