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Many citizens of Braga took advantage of the morning before the closure to shop and walk around the city, before the curfew begins, scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and until 5:00 a.m. on Sunday.
In the morning at Pingo Doce de São Vicente, the queue outside the store was visible, as the interior capacity was sold out several times.
A MINHO, Deolinda Alves, from São Víctor, explains that she came to make “the last purchase” of the weekend.
“I have no intention of leaving the house until Monday, so I came here now to do some shopping that I needed to be at home,” said the seamstress by profession.
Photo: Fernando André Silva / O MINHO
Deolinda is in favor of this withdrawal, as she is “scared” by the increase in cases in the municipality. “Nothing like this has ever been seen, there are many people who say that this is paranoia but many people have died in the country and here in Braga and they are not just old as they say,” Braga shot.
Also in the city center, several people bought in the stores, still open, to calmly prepare for the confinement.
In the historic center, even small grocery stores, which may be open during the afternoon thanks to an exception decreed by the Council of Ministers, which allows the opening of food and hygiene stores with less than 200 square meters and with doors to the Street.
Photo: Fernando André Silva / O MINHO
Commerce and restaurants began today the first of two weekends in which they can only open between 08:00 and 13:00, under the state of emergency, a measure contested by several business associations.
At dawn on November 8, the country learned from the Prime Minister, António Costa, that circulation would be limited for the following two weekends, between 1:00 p.m. on Saturday and 5:00 a.m. on Sunday and at 1:00 p.m. 12:00 on Sunday and 05:00 on Monday, in the 121 counties with the highest risk of contagion with the new coronavirus (they will increase to 191 as of Monday).
Within the framework of the state of emergency decreed due to the covid-19 pandemic, the Government also decided to introduce a curfew between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekdays, between November 9 and 23 (while the state of emergency, which is valid for 15 days and can be renewed), in the most affected regions, with shops closing until 10pm and restaurants until 10.30pm.
A week of challenge and doubts about the exceptions to the measure followed, by various trade associations representing commerce and restaurants.
Thus, on Thursday, the Government decided to order the closure of shops and restaurants at 1:00 p.m., this weekend and next.
It was also decided that the opening of establishments can only take place after 8:00 am.
“The rule is that everything closes at 1:00 pm,” Prime Minister António Costa said at a press conference after the Council of Ministers meeting, referring to municipalities with a high risk of contagion from covid-19.
Restaurants can only operate from 1:00 p.m. for home delivery, the Prime Minister clarified, and not for ‘take away’, as businessmen in the sector expected.
António Costa also announced that there will be a 20% support for the loss of income from restaurants on both weekends compared to the average of the 44 previous weekends (from January to October 2020).
Outside of the obligation to close from 1:00 p.m. and open only from 8:00 a.m. there are pharmacies, clinics and offices, veterinarians, food establishments with doors to the street up to 200 square meters, dispensers of gas. , bakeries and funeral homes.
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