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“We have been working in a very coordinated manner with the Spanish authorities,” the head of Portuguese diplomacy, Augusto Santos Silva, told Lusa, noting that when it was closed to normal traffic of people, it was “by a joint decision of the two states. “.
Asked about the need for a new limitation on mobility between the two countries, after the Spanish authorities announced, on Monday, 27,404 new cases since Friday, Augusto Santos Silva stressed that the decisions fall on the Ministers of Internal Administration. Portugal and the interior of Spain and that the matter will be discussed in the coming weeks.
“I will be delighted to receive my Spanish colleague [Arancha González Laya] next Friday 18. Then we will have the bilateral summit between the two countries, on October 2, and, of course, these are opportunities to exchange information on how we are following the evolution of the pandemic and the measures we are all taking to combat it ” , concluded the Portuguese Chancellor.
The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs intervened on the sidelines of the inauguration of Cristina Moniz for the position of Vice President of the Board of Directors of Camões – Institute of Cooperation and Languages, a ceremony held this afternoon at the institute’s headquarters.
Spain announced today 9,437 new cases of covid-19 in its territory, exceeding 600,000 cases since the start of the pandemic. Likewise, the authorities recorded 156 new deaths from the disease, raising the number of deaths to 30,004.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 929,391 deaths and more than 29.3 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,875 people died from 65,021 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
