Borders closed on the two extended weekends



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The government listens to epidemiologists before deciding whether to change the measures for municipalities. On the table you can anticipate the Christmas school holidays in a week.

The Government is studying the possibility of strengthening traffic control between municipalities throughout the country during the long weekends of the holidays of December 1 and 8, in order to avoid family reunions at a time when the peak of admissions for covid. The exceptions may include those who work and study, safeguarding political rights, in order to guarantee the holding of the PCP congress. On the table will also be the possibility of bringing the Christmas school holidays one week forward.

The rigor of the measures will depend, in part, on what epidemiologists indicate as expected scenarios for the pandemic, this Thursday at the Infarmed meeting in Lisbon, JN learned. The meeting takes place hours before the Council of Ministers, which can decide to escalate this weekend’s curfew up to three levels, depending on the severity of the infection, as requested by António Costa to the Minister of Health. This will mean easing the measures in 160 counties.



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