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The prohibition of circulation between municipalities between November 27 and December 2 and between December 4 and 8 provides a series of exceptions, such as trips to work, for health reasons or other “urgent reasons.”
However, contrary to what happened last weekend in October and All Saints’ Day, in which movement between municipalities was also prohibited, trips to cultural events will not be allowed.
According to the government decree that regulates the application of the new state of emergency due to the covid-19 pandemic that comes into force at 00:00 on Wednesday, it will be prohibited to drive outside the home between 23:00 on the 27th. From November at 5:00 am on December 2 and between 11:00 pm on December 4 and 11:59 pm on December 8, “except for health reasons or other imperatively urgent reasons.”
The decree establishes ten exceptions to the prohibition of movement between municipalities in mainland Portugal, namely, travel for the performance of professional functions with a statement 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 social partners and political parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic and “persons with free transit issued in legal terms” can also circulate between municipalities, as well as ministers of worship, personnel of diplomatic and consular missions and international organizations located in Portugal.
Travel to schools, nurseries, to participate in procedural acts and to attend public services is also allowed, provided that their appointment is proven.
The necessary trips can also be made to “leave the continental national territory” and “non-resident citizens to places of proven permanence”, such as “trips for other compelling family reasons, namely, the fulfillment of shared parental responsibility.”
“Homecoming” is also allowed.
In the 127 municipalities classified as “extremely high” risk (with more than 960 cases of contagion per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 14 days) and “very high” risk (with more than 480 cases per 100,000 inhabitants), the mandatory curfew between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. from Monday to Friday and between 1 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekends and on public 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 “high risk” counties, there will also be a curfew seven days a week between 11 pm and 5 am.
On the eve of the holidays there will be no classes and the public function will have a tolerance point. The Government asked the private sector to also lay off workers in these two days.
As of Tuesday, masks are mandatory in the workplace.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,381,915 deaths as a result of more than 58.1 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 3,897 people died out of 260,758 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected at the end of December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
VAM // MP
Lusa / end
