“The European Union must help the more vulnerable third-world countries to combat the new coronavirus, particularly on the African continent, where the pandemic can very quickly get out of control”, a notable figure of European diplomacy warned this Friday.
The Government is set to decree, in a legislative document that regulates the new state of emergency, strict confinement to one’s municipality of residence during the Easter period. In practice, from Thursday (9th) to Monday (13th), Portuguese citizens and residents are prohibited from traveling beyond the municipality where they live, with some exceptions.
The Portuguese government has backed President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa’s proposal to extend the state of emergency for another 15 days to help limit the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said.
A cruise company, travelling under the Portuguese flag, has claimed that one of its liners was both shot at and rammed by a Venezuelan navy vessel, which ended up sinking after the clash in the Caribbean.
Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Wednesday that the country may be facing "one, two, three months" of restrictions on movement of people, as the number of those who have died from COVID-19 climbs over two hundred today, reaching 209, with approximately 9034 cases throughout the country so far.
Today government officials carried out a visit to the region in order to recognize the work being carried out by the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. A protocol was also signed to formalize various actions in the elderly care homes in the region. Despite the current state of Emergency, Manuel Heitor, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Ana Mendes Godinho, Minister of Labor, Solidarity and Social Security and Jamila Madeira, Assistant Secretary of State for Health, made a point of visiting the ABC’s labs at the University of the Algarve, in Faro.
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.
