Don’t forget that the store closes at 3pm today – Executive Digest



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Due to the new state of emergency, this Monday the commercial establishments will be closed from 3:00 p.m. in the municipalities with the highest risk. In addition, schools are also behind closed doors.

As defined in the last Extraordinary Council of Ministers on November 21, the eve of the holidays (November 30 and December 7), from 3:00 p.m. commercial activity is closed in the municipalities of “very high “risk or” extremely high. Schools also do not open doors and public officials will be tolerated.

However, and despite what appears in the measures defined by the Government, on the eve of the two December holidays, days 1 and 8, the traffic restrictions for weekends and holidays will not be applied.

“The restrictions on circulation on public roads that take place on weekends and holidays, in the period between 1:00 pm and 5:00 am, do not apply on the eve of public holidays,” explained the Presidency of the Council of Ministers .

The same source also adds that this Monday, November 30 and also the other December 7, the rules of circulation on public roads are exactly the same as those applied on the rest of the working days of the week, ”which means that even with schools closed and shops closing at 3 pm, the Portuguese can circulate on the streets, even in the most affected municipalities.

It is recalled that, as stipulated in the renewal of the state of Emergency, the executive divided the 278 municipalities of the continent into four groups, according to the levels of risk of transmission of the new coronavirus: “extremely high”, “very high”, ” high ”and“ moderate ”.

Thus, and as established in the decree published in the Diário da República, in the 127 counties classified as “extremely high” and “very high” risk, the curfew will remain in effect between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. the next day. . useful, as well as between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. on the weekend of November 28 and 29, the weekend of December 5 and 6, and holidays of December 1 and 8.

On the eve of the holidays, commercial establishments will be closed from 15:00 in these 127 municipalities. In the 86 counties considered “high risk”, the curfew between 11 pm and 5 am will be in effect seven days a week.

In the entire continental territory, it will be prohibited to move between municipalities between 11 p.m. on November 27 and 5 a.m. on December 2, and between 11 p.m. on December 4 and 11:59 p.m. on December 8. from December. The eve of the holidays there will be no classes and the public function will have a tolerance point. The Government called on the private sector to also fire the workers in these two days. Masks have also become mandatory in the workplace.



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