[ad_1]
Portugal entered a state of emergency from midnight until November 23 to combat the covid-19 pandemic, imposing, among other measures, night curfews in 121 municipalities with more cases of contagion, 18 of them in Minho.
This measure that prohibits traffic on public roads between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. on weekdays and, for the next two weekends, starting at 1:00 p.m., is applied in 121 municipalities considered to be at high risk of transmission. COVID-19.
These municipalities, which cover 70% of the resident population, include all the municipalities in the metropolitan areas of Lisbon and Porto.
The municipalities of the Minho covered by the measures are: Amares, Barcelos, Braga, Caminha, Cabeceiras de Basto, Celorico de Basto, Esposende, Fafe, Guimarães, Paredes de Coura, Ponte de Lima, Póvoa de Lanhoso, Valença, Viana do Castelo, Cerveira, Famalicão, Vila Verde and Vizela.
Outside are Monção, Melgaço, Arcos de Valdevez, Ponte da Barca, Terras de Bouro and Vieira do Minho.
The measure was approved by an extraordinary Council of Ministers that took place on Saturday night and provides for exceptions such as commuting to work, returning home, emergency situations, hygienic walks in the vicinity of homes or animals that walk.
The executive also approved other measures that will be applied to continental Portugal, such as the possibility of measuring body temperature by non-invasive means in access to the workplace, schools, means of transport or commercial and sports spaces.
The possibility of requiring diagnostic tests for covid-19 in schools, homes, health facilities, when entering and leaving the national territory, prisons or other places that the General Directorate of Health determines.
The new state of emergency also provides for the possibility of requesting resources, means and health facilities from the private and social sector.
The mobilization of human resources to increase the tracking capacity, such as carrying out epidemiological inquiries or tracing the contacts of workers in prophylactic isolation, teachers without an academic component or military personnel of the Armed Forces, is another measure provided by the state of emergency.
Last week, the Government had already approved other measures to contain the pandemic on the continent, such as groupings in restaurants limited to six people, unless they belong to the same household.
According to the General Directorate of Health, Portugal has registered 2,896 deaths and 179,324 cases of infection.
[ad_2]
