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.
A study carried out as part of Lagos Council’s plan to assess the construction potential in an area of the municipality has confirmed the environmental and landscape interest of the Lagos shrubland which citizens of the municipality have been calling for the Council to preserve.
Isilda Gomes, Mayor of Portimão today confirmed to journalists that there are now five cases of Covid-19 that have been diagnosed in the city, thus taking the region’s total number up to 5, as all cases have been within this single municipality.
