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During New Year’s Eve, due to the pandemic, circulation between municipalities is prohibited and there is a mandatory curfew at 11:00 p.m. on December 31 throughout the continental territory, with gatherings on public roads and public parties being prohibited.
According to the Government’s measures for the New Year period, circulation between municipalities in the continental territory is prohibited between 00:00 hours on December 31 and 05:00 hours on January 4, 2021, that is, between Thursday and Monday, “except for health, urgent or other specifically foreseen reasons.”
As for the mandatory curfew, in which traffic on public roads is prohibited, it applies to the entire continental territory, on December 31 from 23:00 and on January 01, 02 and 03, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. the next day.
Thursday, December 31, New Year’s Eve, “From 11 pm to 5 am on January 1, 2021, the prohibition of circulation in public spaces and roads, or in private spaces and roads equivalent to public roads, is applied throughout the continental national territory. “, according to the decree of the Council of Ministers.
For the New Years period there are “Public parties prohibited or open to the publicAnd, as at Christmas, meetings on public roads with more than six people are not allowed.
Initially, on December 5, the Government said that on New Year’s Eve the curfew would be at 2:00 a.m. and only for municipalities considered extremely and very high risk of transmitting the new coronavirus, but the measures were re-evaluated in 17. December and got worse.
“Contrary to what we had announced 15 days ago […], we have to completely eliminate the New Year celebrations “ Prime Minister António Costa said at the end of the Council of Ministers meeting.
With the relaxation of the restrictions at Christmas, the Government decided to “adopt maximum containment measures” during the New Year period, to prevent the “greater risk” of Christmas celebrations from multiplying in an exponential growth in the transmission of covid- 19.
With the change in curfew hours on December 31 and January 1, and the weekend of January 2 and 3, restaurant hours were also changed.
Thus, throughout the continental territory, on December 31, restaurants must close until 10:30 p.m. and on January 1, 2 and 3, until 1:00 p.m. “except for home deliveries”.
Regardless of the list of municipalities by level of risk of transmission of covid-19, throughout the continental territory, retail and service establishments, including supermarkets, can only be open between 8:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. : 00 from January 1 to 3, that is, from Friday to Sunday.
According to the updated list of risk levels, which will remain in effect until January 7 under the new state of emergency, there are 30 counties at extreme risk of contagion, 79 at very high risk, 92 at high risk and 77 at moderate risk.
In Madeira and the Azores, the same rules do not apply as in mainland Portugal, but regional governments also decided to apply special measures during the New Year.
In Madeira, crowds of more than five people are not allowed, the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on public roads is prohibited, except on duly authorized terraces, and restaurants can only operate until 11 pm, but exceptionally they are allowed to close at 24:00 on December 30 and at 01:00 at night from December 31 to January 1.
The region will have, as usual, a pyrotechnic show at the end of the year, having defined “bags” (delimited areas “for a maximum of five people in different observation areas. However, the Provincial Council called for the show in home, through the internet and television.
In the Azores, the measures in force until January 7 determine that all beverage establishments and the like, with dance venues, are closed, and bars and other beverage establishments, with or without a show and with or without terrace service , you have to close until 22:00.
