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The mandatory curfew at 2 a.m. on December 24, 25 and 31 only applies to municipalities with high, very high and extreme risk of transmission from the new coronavirus.
As confirmed this Wednesday to the source Lusa of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the prohibition of circulation on public roads from 2 in the morning on the nights of Christmas Eve, Christmas and New Year’s Eve does not apply to the 73 counties considered ” moderate risk. “
In the Government decree that regulates the application of the state of emergency decreed by the President of the Republic for the covid-19 pandemic, which entered into force this Wednesday and ends at 11:59 p.m. on December 23, “rules are already defined special “. “for the Christmas and New Year period”, if the current state of emergency declaration is renewed.
Thus, it is established that the prohibition of circulating on public roads “does not apply on December 24 and 25, 2020, in the period after 11:00 pm and until 2:00 am the next day” in high risk, very high and extremely high risk.
On Saturday, December 26, the prohibition of circulating on public roads in the municipalities of very high and very high risk begins at 11:00 p.m.
Currently, high-risk counties are subject to a mandatory curfew between 11 p.m. M. And 5 a. M. Seven days a week, while in very high and extremely high risk counties the curfew on weekdays is also 11 pm. M. A 5 a. M. and on weekends between 1:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m.
Since there is no curfew on any day of the week in moderate risk counties, the ban also does not apply on Christmas and New Years.
For New Year’s Eve, the Government decree establishes that the curfew in the municipalities of high, very high and extremely high risk “is not applicable between 5 in the morning of December 31, 2020 and 2 in the morning of day 1 “. January 2021 “.
On Saturday, when he presented these measures, the prime minister said they would be evaluated again on December 18 to confirm the trend of improvement in the covid-19 pandemic.
At the end of November, the Government divided the 278 municipalities of the continent into four groups, based on the levels of risk of transmission of the new coronavirus: extremely high, very high, high and moderate.
Extremely high-risk municipalities are those with more than 960 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants in the last 15 days.
Municipalities are classified as very high risk if they had between 480 and 960 cases in the last 15 days and high risk if they registered more than 240 and up to 480 cases.
Currently 35 municipalities are at the extreme risk level and 78 municipalities at the very high risk level.
At the high risk level there are 92 municipalities and 73 are at moderate risk (with less than 240 cases).
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