“The National Association of Restaurants is extremely concerned about the lack of disclosure of hygiene and safety rules within the scope of COVID-19. It is incomprehensible that within a week (seven working days) of the restaurant spaces opening, hygiene and safety rules for the sector are still not known ”, reads today a statement by PRO.VAR.
Portugal's strategy to overcome the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is to push towards making the country a “powerful cluster of industrialization in Europe”, defended this Wednesday the Minister of Foreign Affairs in a parliamentary committee following many commentators’ calls for Europe to come together and establish new internal supply chains rooted in European countries.
Euro zone finance ministers hope to agree on Friday on the final details of credit lines from the ESM bailout fund for governments in need of cheap cash to deal with the coronavirus pandemic, so that the money can be available from June.
Aviation companies have been hit hard by the pandemic and the payback will be difficult. We will travel again, but there will surely be many changes in order to guarantee the rules of social distancing, travel etiquette, and hand hygiene, with the use of masks in closed environments. Although nothing is set in stone, we can look ahead to hypothesize what the most likely situation will be.
The phased return to normality will provide the possibility of family gatherings, said the DGS (Directorate-General for Health) today. Family lunches and dinners are allowed, clarified the deputy Director-General of Health, during a press conference this Tuesday, but "with due measures, much caution, and social distance".
The discussion of a “Portuguese miracle” may have been too much, but now that Europe is tentatively emerging from the first wave of COVID-19 over the coming weeks, it’s clear that the country performed well in comparison.
"The giant has awoken. The history of this institution has long begged for this moment. We rose and arrived at the place that is ours in its own right! We rose because we were better than the rest”. That is how the SC Farense football team, based in Faro, has reacted to the news of their promotion into Portugal’s ‘Primeira Liga’ league, putting them amongst the country’s footie crème-de-la-crème.
We have now entered the first week of new measures in force for the Situation of Calamity, which invlolves some new measures and rules. So what can you do and what is prohibited from 4th of May?
