Funchal wants teleworking, night pick-up, fewer events and adaptation of schedules

This morning the Municipality met with the Municipal Civil Protection Commission, which includes the Delegate of Health, SESARAM, Firefighters, Police and Red Cross.

According to the municipality, the Commission “recommends the application of measures to combat COVID-19 that are more restrictive than those currently in force, given the increase in the number of confirmed cases in Funchal, in the last 14 days.”

According to the same note, the Mayor, meeting with the videoconference commission, considers that “Funchal needs more restrictive measures, that is, those that are already implemented in other municipalities of the national territory that have a proportion of cases like Funchal currently has” .

He adds that “all the entities present have agreed that we cannot postpone the actions to be implemented now,” the president explained.

The entities present at this meeting are the Funchal Health Delegate, SESARAM, the Municipal Civil Protection, the Funchal Sapper Firefighters, the Madeira Volunteer Firefighters, the Portuguese Red Cross, the Maritime Police, the Madeira Social Security Institute, the GNR and PSP.

Among the possible measures to be implemented in the municipality, but which must be regulated either by the Regional Government or by the Government of the Republic, the Municipal Civil Protection Commission recommended the promotion of teleworking and mirror hours, the duty to charge for the night, restriction of events and adaptation of the opening hours of services to this new reality.