The Algarve Intermunicipal Community (AMAL) met, at the end of Monday this week, with the Regional Health Administration (ARS) of the Algarve and the Board of Directors of the Algarve University Hospital Centres (CHUA) to discuss the evolution of COVID-19 in the region.
This week the Alentejo coast has seen an "abnormal" increase in motorhomes and tourists seeking to allegedly take refuge from the new virus in their motorhomes, several mayors of the region reported today.
In order to help face the COVID-19 pandemic on a unified front, and to collaborate with the National Health System, specifically in the Algarve region, the HPA Healthcare Group will be preparing its Lagos hospital unit – the São Gonçalo Hospital- to receive infected patients who require internment.
The Ryanair airline group is set to cancel more than 80% of flights between midnight tonight and the 24th March. As of that date, the airline expects that "most or all flights" will be grounded. In a note sent to the newsrooms, the Ryanair Group says that, as of the previously mentioned date "only a very small number of flights will be operated, to maintain an essential level of connectivity, mainly between the United Kingdom and Ireland".
In an effort to aid in coping with the mental health struggles resulting from COVID-19 worries, and with more and more people and families in isolation and working from home, the municipality of Portimão will start to provide, starting this Thursday, March 19th, a psychological support service, especially to help younger people or older people who are at home without support, through the Protection24 line.
Today, "given the level of continued uncertainty" due to the COVID-19 pandemic, low-cost airline EasyJet have announced new flight cancellations.
European citizens who holidaying in Portugal and currently staying in motorhomes will be able to leave the national territory and cross the closed Spanish border in able to return to their country of origin, clarified the Ministry of Internal Administration (MAI) today.
Throughout 2019 Portugal attracted the most foreign workers it had seen since the 2011 Troika bailout. Last year, there were 34 thousand more workers moving here than in 2018, reinforcing a trend that had started to become noticed in 2017.
