Since the beginning of the epicentre, Albufeira has been one of the hubs of COVID-19 spread in the region. So far it is the only municipality in the Algarve where the transmission of the new virus may be circulating in the community, meaning that authorities are unable to identify the transmission chains.
Nine more Iberian lynx kittens have born in the Algarve in the past 72 hours. The new litters of the lynxes Fresa, Juncia and Juromenha came to join the two that had been born last week and increase to 11 the total number of lynx kittens born so far in 2020 at the National Centre for Reproduction of the Iberian Lynx (CNRLI), in Silves.
It is "unacceptable and condemnable to take advantage of the epidemic outbreak to liquidate labour rights, reduce wages and lay off workers" at Faro Airport said a representative of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP).
“Worse than the fear that we may feel about this virus is only the feeling that we have been betrayed by the system's bureaucrats” said Faro’s regional head of the Portuguese Nurses Union this week (SEP).
Only students of the 11th and 12th years (penultimate and final year of education) will be likely be able to return, in this academic year, to take face-to-face classes, Prime Minister António Costa announced this Thursday. However,”if and when” students return to schools will only be decided according to the evolution of the pandemic in Portugal.
With Easter just around the corner, the government urged people this week to keep up the fight against the novel coronavirus, which has already infected thousands across the country, as well as telling them to stay home during the usually busy holiday period.
Parliament have temporarily suspended electricity, water and gas shutoffs, and granted partial pardon to some prisoners on Wednesday, as the country moved to contain the economic and social damage of the COVID-19 outbreak.
Workers who are under reduced working hours or suspended from their employment contract (the so-called lay-off mode), will only be able to work in certain sectors. The Council of Ministers approved this Thursday, April 9th, a decree-law that defines the sectors in which these individuals can seek work.
