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The Algarve could have many fewer municipalities on the list of municipalities with the highest risk of contagion by Covid, if the population that actually resides in the region and not only the registered one is counted, António Pina, president of AMAL – Comunidade Intermunicipal do Algarve, defended today .
For the also president of the District Civil Protection Commission, the Algarve is “once again harmed” by the fact that resident foreigners are not counted, but that they have never registered as such, as well as longer visitors, that is to say, the motorhomes that choose the region to settle temporarily.
“This leads us to think that if this population were considered, as we propose, many of the municipalities that appear on this list today would not be,” he says.
It is that, mainly in Vila do Bispo, but also in Portimão and Albufeira, a large percentage of the new cases diagnosed in recent weeks came from unregistered foreigners.
For António Pina, the inclusion of the eight counties of the Algarve in the list “exposes something that we have said for a long time: the Algarve cannot be seen only by the resident population, but also by the floating population.”
«Many more people live here, who are not in the statistics and are not registered, something that will not happen anywhere else, in the country, with this dimension. There must be at least 600,000 inhabitants, “instead of the approximately 450,000 officers, this person defended at the fortnightly press conference to assess the epidemiological situation in the Algarve.
This has already ‘pushed the Algarve out of Goal 1 [Convergência] of the European Union [onde estão as regiões mais pobres]”Something that the president of AMAL believes would not have happened if there were more inhabitants in the Algarve.
“We are going to present a proposal to the Government and the DGS to introduce a new criterion, to introduce another number in the weighting of cases in the Algarve. Foreigners can not only be counted for cases, they must also be counted as a population, ”António Pina announced.
Ana Cristina Guerreiro, Algarve regional health delegate, defended, for her part, that the Algarve could be seen as a whole, in order to count the number of cases per 100,000 inhabitants.
«We have a population equivalent to ACES [Agrupamento de Centros de Saúde] Amadora-Sintra and they could even look at us like this, as a whole, without dividing by region, “said Ana Cristina Guerreiro.
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