Covid-19: Remember the driving restrictions for the long weekend | Coronavirus



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Circulation between municipalities in the continental territory is prohibited between 11:00 p.m. on Friday, December 4 and 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, December 8, with ten exceptions to the measure provided for in the state of emergency, decreed by the pandemic of covid. -19.

According to the Government decree that regulates the application of the state of emergency, circulation outside the municipality of residence will be prohibited between 11 p.m. on Friday and 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, “except for health reasons or other reasons of imperative urgency ”. This prohibition had already been applied last week, between Friday, November 27, and the early morning of Wednesday, December 2.

There are ten exceptions to the prohibition of movement between municipalities in mainland Portugal, namely travel for the performance of professional functions with a declaration issued by the employer or by the employer, in the case of self-employed workers and sole proprietors.

Health professionals and workers of health and social assistance institutions, teachers and non-teaching staff of schools, civil protection agents, security forces, military and inspectors of the Food and Economic Security Authority (ASAE) do not require a employer statement to circulate.

The heads of sovereign bodies, leaders of the social partners and political parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic, and “people with a free pass issued in legal terms”, as well as ministers of worship, staff of diplomatic missions, may also circulate among municipalities. consular and international organizations located in Portugal.

It is also allowed to travel to schools, nurseries, to participate in procedural acts and to attend public services, as long as their appointment is proven.

The necessary displacements can also be made to “leave the continental national territory” and of “non-resident citizens to places of proven permanence”, such as “displacements for other imperative family reasons, namely, the fulfillment of shared parental responsibility.” “Homecoming” is also allowed.

Measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic during the current period of state of emergency will remain in effect until 11:59 pm on Tuesday. The Government has already announced that on Saturday the measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic will be announced, which will last until the first days of January, including during the Christmas and New Year period.

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