Christmas message from CEO By Richard Clingen, in News · 23-12-2020 01:00:00 · 3 Comments
Season’s greetings to all of you reading this message and may the blessings of Christmas be on you all.
2020 news has been dominated with the virus, restriction of movement, erosion of freedom and civil liberties previously taken for granted, loss of livelihoods and unemployment. Yet whilst this all sounds doom and gloom I believe in the Algarve we have been particularly blessed.
The number of deaths in the Algarve has been 62 with the majority being over 80 years of age representing 0.001% of the population here. Whilst any death is a tragedy this percentage is so infinitesimally small as to render it statistically meaningless in my view. Of course the virus is a serious global phenomenon so we are blessed the Portuguese