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The Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP) warned today that, in view of the mandatory curfew set for the next two weekends starting at 1:00 p.m., dioceses should reschedule night celebrations and other activities for other times.
“This measure, understandable in the extreme situation that we are already reaching in terms of the health system, poses many difficulties to our ecclesial activities, especially on Saturday and Sunday afternoons,” admits the CEP in a statement, adding that, “even for see if there is room for other interventions, each diocese will see the best way to adapt their evening celebrations and other activities to other times ”.
By way of example, the case of the Diocese of Setúbal advances, which decided that “whenever possible and convenient, evening masses can also take place on Saturday mornings.”
The Portuguese Episcopal Conference, which claims to have been “surprised” by the new restrictions on circulation announced this morning by the Prime Minister, António Costa, assures that in its next plenary assembly, which begins on Wednesday, “there will be an opportunity to address in common these guidelines ”.
The celebration of a mass for the victims of the pandemic in Portugal in the Basilica of the Holy Trinity, in the Sanctuary of Fátima, is also scheduled for 11:00 am next Saturday.
The Government announced today the curfew between 11:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. from Monday to Friday, from Monday until November 23, in the 121 municipalities most affected by the pandemic, and on the weekend, the curfew It remains begins at 1:00 p.m. in the same 121 municipalities.
“We have a clear notion that social interaction has a very important contribution to the spread” of contagion and that the spread develops in the post-employment period, said António Costa, who spoke after midnight, at the end of the meeting of the Advice. of Ministers, in the Palácio da Ajuda, in Lisbon, to implement the measures of the state of emergency that will come into force between Monday, November 9 and 23.
Portugal today counts another 48 deaths related to covid-19 and 5,784 new cases of infection by the new coronavirus, according to the epidemiological bulletin of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).
Since the start of the pandemic, Portugal has registered 2,740 deaths and 179.24 cases of infection, 76,647 active cases today, 3,702 more than on Saturday.
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