As the majority of Portugal moves into the third phase of easing of lockdown, four counties will see measures reversed back to phase 1 while seven others will.
The rules for flights are to remain unchanged for this next phase of the deconfinement plan that starts on Monday, and the land border with Spain will remain.
120 case threshold could be reached within two weeks By TPN/Lusa, in News, COVID-19 · 13-04-2021 16:10:00 · 0 Comments
The covid-19 pandemic has registered a “reversal of the downward trend” in Portugal, with a transmissibility index (R) of 1.05, as numbers show that the country may reach 120 cases per 100,000 inhabitants within “two weeks to a month”.
The information was provided by researcher Baltazar Nunes, from the National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge (INSA), who highlighted the current “growth phase” of the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the country and said that on April 8, the last time which there was data, the R has already reached 1.09, when in the previous Infarmed meeting (March 23) the value of this index was 0.89.
Police shut down illegal Cascais party
An illegal party with more than 100 people which took place in Alcabideche, in the municipality of Cascais, on 10 April, was shut down by the authorities after a noise complaint.
In a statement, the Lisbon Territorial Command of GNR explains that the police operation was the result of a noise report, with the police moving “immediately to the location”, a forest area in the town of Alcabideche.
“In the course of the police investigations, it was possible to identify 97 people who were breaking the general duty to stay at home”, it is mentioned in the note.
This week looks set to be a busy week for the government as it will be making decisions as to whether to renew the State of Emergency or not, or introduce more.