14 Algarve municipalities are now at a high or very high risk level of transmission of Covid-19, Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva has just announced.
At high risk are the municipalities of Castro Marim, Monchique, Tavira, Vila do Bispo and Vila Real de Santo António.
Already at the very high level are Albufeira, Faro, Lagos, Lagoa, Loulé, Olhão, Portimão, São Brás de Alportel and Silves.
The measures that were already in force for the councils in these degrees remain the same. In other words: in both cases, the obligation to present a vaccination certificate or a negative test to Covid-19 to eat inside a restaurant, on the weekend, remains in force, as well as the mandatory curfew at 23:00.
In high-risk municipalities, telecommuting is mandatory whenever activities permit and restaurants, cafes and patisseries can work until 22:30 (inside, with a maximum of 6 people, and on the terrace, 10).
Cultural shows run until 22:30 and all stores can be open until 21:00. As for weddings and baptisms, they are allowed to have 50% of the capacity.
In municipalities with very high risk, in addition to teleworking being mandatory, restaurants, cafes and patisseries can only have six people on the terrace and four inside.
Supermarkets and retail stores are open until 21 pm during the week and until 00 pm on weekends and holidays.
As for the stores in the non-food sector, they are authorized to open until 21:00 pm, during the week, and until 15:30 pm, on Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
In the Algarve, there is a municipality in a state of alert, but which does not yet have new rules: Alcoutim. At the moment, only Aljezur escapes, with a calm pandemic situation.
According to Mariana Vieira da Silva, Minister of State and Presidency, Portugal "is not yet at a time" when it is possible to "lift restrictions" on bars and clubs.
The government official said that, even so, the situation is "controlled, in the country, from the point of view of the response of the National Health Service."
For the rest, the Government today approved a decree-law that allows the sale of self-tests in supermarkets.
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