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The 113 municipalities with a very high or extremely high risk of transmission of covid-19 will once again have a mandatory curfew from 1 pm, and shops and restaurants will also have to close at that time.
This is the fifth consecutive weekend in which the prohibition of circulating on public roads from 1:00 p.m. until the weekend is applied in municipalities considered to be of very high or extreme risk of transmission of the new coronavirus, with 113 municipalities currently included at these two levels of risk.
The decision to maintain this restriction this and next weekend was announced last week by Prime Minister António Costa, who said that the government’s strategy is to keep the scheme in force until Christmas, then slightly reducing restrictions on parties.
Thus, in the 113 municipalities with a very high or extremely high risk of transmission of covid-19, it is prohibited to circulate on public roads between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Commercial establishments can only operate between 8 am and 1 pm. The catering can work after that time, but only for ‘take away’ and home deliveries.
Exceptions to the mandatory closure at 1:00 p.m. are retail establishments for food products, as well as natural or dietary, health and hygiene establishments with a sales or service area equal to or less than 200 square meters, with entry. autonomous and independent of the public highway.
In the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, only the municipalities of Lisbon, Loures, Almada and Barreiro continue to be included in the list of 113 municipalities in which the mandatory curfew is reapplied at 1:00 p.m. on the weekend, since eight municipalities have already exceeded the very high level. high (Odivelas, Oeiras, Seixal, Setúbal, Sintra, Amadora, Cascais and Vila Franca de Xira).
In the Porto Metropolitan Area, nine municipalities went from extremely high to very high risk and the remaining eight remain at the most serious level, so, in practice, there are no changes in relation to the restrictions currently in force.
In November, the executive divided the 278 municipalities of the continent into four groups, according to the level of risk of transmission: moderate, high (between 240 and 480 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), very high (between 480 and 960) and extremely high (over 960). The lists can be consulted at www.covid19estamoson.gov.pt.
Currently 35 municipalities are at the extreme risk level and 78 municipalities at the very high risk level.
At the ‘high risk’ level there are 92 municipalities and 73 are at moderate risk (with less than 240 cases).
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