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The measures dictated by the Government of the Republic to be applied in the context of the new state of emergency, due to the covid-19 pandemic, are also applied in the Azores, a source from the office of the representative of the Republic told Lusa in that archipelago.
The Government decree that regulates the application of the new state of emergency, between 00:00 hours on Tuesday, November 24 and 11:59 p.m. on December 8, establishes that the provisions between articles 3 and 31 and between articles 45 and 53 “is applicable to the entire national territory.”
The Azores do not have regions with more than 240 cases per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 15 days, according to the latest report from the General Directorate of Health, so they are not covered by the most restrictive measures applied to high-risk counties . very high risk and extreme risk, but they are subject to the remaining measures.
In this sense, in the region it will also be prohibited “to leave the municipality of residence between 11:00 pm on November 27 and 5:00 am on December 2 and between 11:00 am on December 4”. and at 11:59 p.m. on December 8, except for health reasons or other reasons of imperative urgency. “
There are a series of 10 exceptions to this prohibition, such as trips for the performance of professional functions, trips of heads of sovereign bodies, leaders of the social partners and political parties represented in the Assembly of the Republic and “persons with free transit issued in the legal conditions “, trips of ministers of worship, staff of diplomatic missions, trips to schools and day centers,” trips necessary to leave mainland Portugal “, trips of” non-resident citizens to places of proven residence “, trips” for other imperative family reasons, such as sharing parental responsibilities “, and returning home.
Also “specific tolerance will be granted to workers who perform public functions in the services of the direct administration of the State, central or decentralized, and in public institutes, on November 30 and December 7”.
As for the services of the regional public administration, it will be up to the Azorean executive, who takes office this Tuesday, to decide whether or not to grant a tolerance point.
In the Azores, teaching and non-teaching activities and training activities in public, private and cooperative educational establishments and in the social and solidarity sector are also suspended “at all educational levels, on November 30 and December 7.
It will also be mandatory in the region “to use masks or visors to access or stay in workplaces whenever the physical distance recommended by health authorities is not practical.”
The other measures previously adopted, such as the indicative limitation of 0.05 people per square meter in commercial establishments, the limitation of the capacity of restaurants to 50% of their capacity, with groups limited to six people, also apply in the Azores. the same home), and the distance between the spectators in the shows.
Among other measures, the measurement of body temperature can also be carried out by non-invasive means, in controlling access to the workplace, public services or institutions, educational establishments and commercial, cultural or sports spaces, means of transport, in residential structures , health establishments, prisons or educational centers, access to these places may be impeded if the person refuses to measure body temperature or presents a result higher than 38 ° C.
Diagnostic tests for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus may also be subject to access to health facilities, residential structures, educational establishments, professional establishments, prisons, and entering and leaving the national territory, by air. or maritime – and other places.
Patients with covid-19, infected by SARS-CoV-2 and citizens in relation to whom the health authority or other professionals are in compulsory hospitalization, in a health establishment, at their home or in another place defined by the health authorities. Health professionals have determined active surveillance.
Since the start of the outbreak, 816 cases of infection with the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease covid-19, have been detected in the Azores, with 394 recoveries and 16 deaths.
Currently, there are 328 active positive cases, of which 257 on the island of São Miguel, 66 on the island of Terceira, two on the island of São Jorge and three on the island of Faial.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,388,590 deaths derived from more than 58.6 million cases of infection worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 3,971 people died out of 264,802 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 in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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