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THE The Council of Ministers approved this Thursday a resolution that determines the prohibition of movement between different provinces of the continental territory in the period between 00:00 on 30 October and at 00:30 on the 3rd of November, the weekend that corresponds to the Day of the Dead.
“Similar rules are foreseen those we had at Easter and therefore a set of exceptions work and others exactly the same procedure to test these exceptions that was defined”, Responded the Minister of State and Presidency, Mariana Vieira da Silva, to the journalists, in the briefing of the Council of Ministers.
So, according to the minister, it will be necessary to have a justification statement so that people can move during that period.
“The Government is aware that this is a very relevant weekend for many Portuguese, more in the north and center of the country than in the south, but for many families and throughout the national territory. We makeIt is knowing that everyone has the right to express their pain and we have a duty to avoid meetings“, he justified.
Regarding cemeteries, “The The timing and mode of operation are the responsibility of local authorities and will continue to be during this period.“.
“What we do is limit circulation to help families not get together in a exercise that we know is full of emotion and that it would contribute what, as we have known in recent weeks, has been one of the main Activities family, “he added.
Understand the meaning of the date, according to Mariana Vieira da Silva, “the government decided to decree on 2 November as a national day of mourning as a form of tribute to all the deceased, especially the victims of pandemic“.
At the beginning of April, the Government decided to limit circulation in the Easter period due to the pandemic. Thus, at that time, citizens could not move outside the municipality of residence, “except for health reasons or other reasons of imperative urgency.”
The restriction did not apply to health professionals and other workers in health and social care institutions, protection civil, security and military forces and services of the Armed Forces, inspectors of the Food and Economic Security Authority, political office holders, magistrates and leaders of the social partners “, provided that in the exercise of their functions, as well as in the performance of Activities Professionals admitted.
The workers were then forced to circulate with “a statement from the employer certifying that they are respective Activities professionals “.
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