There are five or six more municipalities in the Algarve that should join the list of municipalities at high risk today, according to official data from the Regional Health Administration (ARS).
According to the chart that the ARS Algarve Department of Public Health and Planning has been drawing up every day, to send to City Councils and other official entities, and to which the Sul Informação had access (see chart), to the municipality of São Brás de Alportel (which remains on the list), will also join those from Albufeira, Faro, Portimão, Vila do Bispo, Vila Real de Santo António and, eventually, also Lagos.
The Council of Ministers meets this Thursday precisely to review the list of councils at risk and reinforce measures to combat the pandemic. The municipalities that, in the last 14 days, surpassed the average of 240 new cases per 100 thousand inhabitants can be included in this list.
At this time, there are 121 municipalities where the risk of transmission of the new coronavirus is higher, but this number is expected to grow, particularly in the Algarve, taking into account the increase in cases in recent days.
There may also be councils dropping off the list, if, in the meantime, the number of new infections in these two weeks has stabilized or decreased significantly. But this will not be the case in the Algarve region, where the only municipality included in the list in its first version – that of São Brás de Alportel – should be maintained.
Taking into account that the most recent ARS Algarve chart, released yesterday, still refers to the 10th, it is not known whether the numbers of yesterday, the 11th, may still push some Algarve municipality to the list or, on the contrary, save it.
On the other hand, since the numbers do not always coincide between the General Directorate of Health and the Algarve Regional Health Authority, there may also be some surprises on that side. In municipalities with a small population, two or three new cases in a day may suffice to tip the balance.
Vila do Bispo, despite being a low-density territory, enters the list of municipalities at risk because the cases that have been registered in the last 14 days have not occurred in nursing homes, which, if that happens, would be a kind of extenuating for accounting, according to the criteria defined by the Government.
Last Saturday night, when asked about the biweekly review of restrictive measures at the level of the councils, Prime Minister António Costa said that the international criterion of 240 cases per 100 inhabitants had been adopted in the previous 14 days, and added that an assessment would be made. of the situation this Thursday.
«Due to this reassessment, there will be councils of the 121 that will leave the list and others that will enter. It may be justified that, next Thursday [today], the Council of Ministers can adopt more restrictive measures», he explained.
Portugal currently has specific and more restrictive measures in force in 121 municipalities to combat the covid-19 pandemic due to the high incidence rate of cases registered, with a limit of 240 cases per 100 inhabitants being set as a threshold for inclusion in this list. of counties.
«There has been, over these 15 days, a very different evolution in the epidemiological situation in these 121 municipalities and, therefore, it may be justified (I am not anticipating, but it may be justified) than in the next Thursday, we are already adopting different measures for the different councils», underlined the prime minister, in his statements last Saturday.
A week ago, and given the daily increase in cases in her county - mainly motivated by an outbreak in an evangelical church with many faithful and by private parties in homes and night spaces -, the Portimão Council had already appealed to the civic spirit of its citizens to try to lock this county's entry in the list. The municipality has been highlighting, on social networks, the negative impact that more restrictive measures will have on the economy and the lives of people from Portimo.
No case of Faro, only yesterday the City Council shared, on its Facebook page, information about the fact that the county may be today, most likely, included in the list. Indicating that the municipality of the Algarve capital already had "38 cases above the red line", the official post admitted that Faro could “be one of the councils included in the list of councils with restrictions”, decided today by the Government.
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