Portuguese tourists who test positive to Covid-19, while on vacation in the Algarve, will not count towards the incidence rate in the region, assured this Wednesday, Prime Minister António Costa, at a press conference. However, the same does not happen with foreign tourists, who will be included in the calculations.
António Costa told journalists that "the region's penalty for potentially infected people" is "corrected", since "any [Portuguese] not resident in the Algarve, who has the misfortune to test positive, is registered at their address in residence".
Something that, by the way, had already happened before.
Therefore, guarantees Costa, «this will not be the factor that will change the incidence rate in the Algarve».
Even so, the same cannot be said of foreign tourists, since, said the prime minister, this is a “different case and, indeed, these can lead to a penalty on the incidence rate in the Algarve”.
The Government announced today that low-density councils come to have different limits for the application of restrictions.
The new phases of the deconfinement process were also presented by António Costa.
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