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You will not have to wear masks on public roads or outdoors. New restrictive measures in response to a pandemic throughout the country will not push much beyond what is already happening in Lisbon. The Government starts from this phase of special risk, with the return to school and a large part of the population to workplaces, with a specific concern: dilute crowds at rush hour, which occur mainly in public transport, to avoid potential outbreaks of contamination by the new coronavirus. The way to achieve this time difference will be approved this Thursday in the Council of Ministers.
The legislative solution is not yet closed, but the Government is studying a way to avoid the large concentration of people caused by pendulum movements, according to the Observer found from an Executive source. One of the hypotheses is the delay in arrival and departure times at the workplace, similar to what some schools are designing to avoid meetings of people outside the establishments. If there are two different schedules, for example, it is possible to divide the population into two groups and reduce the peak-hour concentration in half.
Alert, contingency and calamity. After all, what state is the country in?
As for the use of a mask beyond what is already mandatory (closed spaces), everything will continue as it comes from the beginning of May. “The problem is with closed spaces,” says a government source to justify this decision. Wearing a mask it is not optional (and will continue to do so) only in public transport, public services such as tax offices and conservatories, in commerce and restaurants. The generalization of this obligation, which already occurs in several European countries, such as France and Spain, for example, was one of the doubts that arose, especially after the Government announced a new tightening of restrictive measures as of 15 December. September and when autumn / winter and the start of a season in which the immune system is normally most vulnerable is already preparing.
So far the country still runs at two speeds, with the Lisbon region in a state of contingency and the rest of the country on alert, but as of September 15, the entire territory will begin to operate under the Lisbon rules, as they have been since the end of July. This will be the bulk of the change that the Government is preparing to announce this Thursday, with the rest of the country now having, for example, the closing hours of the commercial establishments that operate in that region.
Thus, with the exception of supermarkets and hypermarkets (10 pm), everything else will have to close at 8 pm and it will be the deadline for the sale of alcoholic beverages in supermarkets and hypermarkets. Restaurants can continue to admit customers until midnight, but must close at 1 am. Meetings with more than ten people are now banned across the country, when the limit beyond Lisbon was already 20 people.
Lisbon Metropolitan Area in contingency, rest of the country on alert. What changes in “dear August”
The regulation in force in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area and which gives authority to mayors regarding hours and opening hours also applies to the whole country. the mayors This way they will be able to make changes in the schedules that are fixed, if they wish. But for this to happen, they must always have the prior favorable opinion of the local health authority and the security forces.
Since the new coronavirus pandemic was decreed in March, Portugal has been in a state of emergency between March 18 and May 2, and has since gone into a state of calamity. At the end of June, the country went from calamity to a state of alert, but the Lisbon region went only to contingency (an intermediate phase enshrined in the basic Civil Protection law) and 19 parishes remained in a state of calamity due to outbreaks located. of Covid-19. A situation that was clarified at the end of July, leaving the entire Lisbon region in contingency, a condition that will now be extended to the entire country at a time when the number of new daily cases is growing: this Wednesday was the 17th The worst day since the first cases were reported in Portugal (March 3), with 646 new infections registered in the last 24 hours.
