The European Commission is ready to offer up to 80 million euros to support CureVac, a German company that is currently working on researching a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus. The Commission details that the funding reach up to 80 million euros, with the objective of "scaling up the development and production of the coronavirus vaccine in Europe".
The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the Algarve rose today to 13, and to 331 throughout Portugal. This means that there has been an increase of three cases in the Algarve and 86 in the country since yesterday.Of the 331 diagnosed individuals confirmed at a national level, just over a third, 139 are hospitalized, 18 of which are in intensive care, according to the public health bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health.
After confirming the first case of infection by Covid-19 in the municipality of Faro, the City Council have reported that "the infected individual is of Nepalese nationality, works and resides in the rural area of the municipality, and has been admitted for treatment at Faro Hospital".
The government have announced that they are hoping to help businesses weather the coronavirus epidemic with a 2.3 billion euros package, including delaying some tax payments and granting soft loans, while tougher measures to contain the spread have been put in place.
AMAL – the Algarve Intermunicipal Community has expressed "its concern over the arrival of citizens of other nationalities, coming from countries where the Covid-19 issue is highly worrying", these are the words of António Miguel Pina, mayor of Olhão and president of AMAL.
A 60-year-old Canadian tourist is the sixth confirmed case of Covid-19 in the Algarve, the General Directorate of Health have confirmed.
Prime-minister Antonio Costa has revealed plans to shut down all schools nationwide from next week to contain the Covid-19 epidemic, which during televised address to the nation yesterday.
"At the moment only four adults from the second group and a teengar are with us", confirms an official source of the Portuguese Council for Refugees (CPR) to national newspaper Diário de Notícias.
