Diogo Gonçalves, a 21-year-old from Albufeira, was found dead last Thursday. The man's head was found at Pego do Inferno, in Tavira, by water by a French couple whilst hiking.
The new COVID-19 screening centre set up beside the Portimão Arena is set to open "in principle next Friday", Mayor Isilda Gomes told press. The testing centre, which is to be operated in cooperation with the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC), similarly to the centre that is already in operation at the Algarve Stadium in Faro, will be put into operation mainly by Aqualab, a contracted company.
The Government has determined that all immigrants with pending residence permit applications with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) are for now to be given access to the same rights as all other citizens, including social benefits. The new measure also covers asylum-seekers.
Prime-Minister António Costa said today that, with or without a state of emergency and despite some "success in lowering the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic", it will be necessary to prolong the preventative measures that have been adopted to date.
As of this Monday, several locations throughout Portugal will be able to receive essential preventive testing kits for use on the elderly and employees, as part of a “complicated logistical operation”, the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana Mendes Godinho, told press today.
The airline EasyJet announced today that it is leaving its entire fleet of planes on the ground until further notice due to the collapse in demand, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement, the airline, based in London, explains that the measure "eliminates a significant cost", and indicates that it will receive help from the government to support its workers.
Police said on Monday they had detained three immigration officers on suspicion of killing a 40-year-old Ukrainian man who attempted to enter Portugal illegally through Lisbon's airport earlier this month.
A GNR officer was attacked this past weekend, on Saturday March 28, with a bottle to the head while trying to interrupt a party in Carvoeiro, in the municipality of Lagoa, taking place despite the state of emergency imposed by the government.
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