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Starting at midnight this Wednesday, it is allowed to move between counties.
The interdiction measure only takes effect again on the week of New Year’s Eve, however there are counties that in the coming weekends will have a curfew at 1:00 p.m.
The new period of the state of emergency in Portugal, which runs until December 23, began at 00:00 this Wednesday, with a total of 113 counties on the continent at risk of extremely high or very high COVID-19 transmission. high. .
Last Saturday, the prime minister, António Costa, said that the government’s strategy is to maintain the scheme that is already in effect until Christmas, then slightly reduce restrictions on holidays.
In the case of Christmas and New Year, the measures also announced will be subject to evaluation on the 18th to confirm the improvement trend of the covid-19 pandemic.
Portugal with 81 more deaths and 2,905 cases
Portugal registered in the last 24 hours more than 2,905 of contagion and 81 more deaths associated with the covid-19 disease, according to the bulletin of the General Directorate of Health this Tuesday.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, 5,122 people have died in Portugal of the 327,976 confirmed cases of infection.
There are less than 14 patients admitted to the Intensive Care Units, totaling 499. In relation to hospital admissions to the ward, there are less 104 people hospitalized, now totaling 3,263.
The DGS also says that health authorities have 77,765 contacts under surveillance, 267 more than on Monday, and that 6,585 more have been reported as recovered, a cumulative total of 252,428 since the start of the pandemic.
