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Published this Tuesday in a supplement of the Diário da República, the second amendment to the decree that regulates the application of the state of emergency in the context of the covid-19 pandemic, corrects throughout the diploma the indication that it is applicable to the entire territory national, clarifying that “it is applicable to the entire continental national territory”, thus excluding the islands.
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, established new confinement measures, including limiting circulation between municipalities. .
On Monday, a source from the office of the representative of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of the Azores told Lusa that the measures dictated by the Government of the Republic in the new state of emergency due to the pandemic also apply in the archipelago, this due to the initial version of the diploma. stated that “it 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-rise counties. risk. very high risk and extreme risk, but could be subject to other measures.
On Tuesday, still without knowing the rectification of the decree that regulates the application of the state of emergency, the President of the Government of Madeira refused to suspend classes on November 30 and December 7, in addition to granting tolerance to the public sector. on the eve of the holidays 01 and 08 December, highlighting that movement between municipalities will not be prohibited either.
“It is critical to realize the following: we do not have a situation [pandémica] equivalent to what is happening on the continent, ”said Miguel Albuquerque.
The president of the regional Executive, of the PSD / CDS-PP coalition, said that day that the decree that regulates the new state of emergency motivated “some erroneous interpretation”, that is, when referring to the provisions between articles 3 and 31. and between articles 45 and 53 “it is applicable to the entire national territory.”
The Government announced this Saturday the measures to contain the covid-19 pandemic for the new period of the state of emergency, which will enter into force between 00:00 on Tuesday, November 24 and 11:59 p.m. on December 8.
The mandatory curfew will continue to be applied in the municipalities with the highest risk of transmission of the new coronavirus between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. from Monday to Friday and between 1 p.m. and 5 a.m. on weekends and holidays. December 8.
The measure will now cover 127 mainland counties classified as “extremely high” and “very high” risk.
On the eve of the holidays, commercial establishments will be closed from 15:00 in these 127 municipalities.
The closing hours for commercial establishments are also maintained at 10:00 pm and for restaurants and cultural facilities at 10:30 pm in these municipalities and in 86 others considered “high risk”. In these latter counties, the curfew will be in effect seven days a week between 11 pm and 5 am.
Throughout the continental territory, circulation between municipalities will be prohibited between 11 pm on November 27 and 5 am on December 2 and between 11 pm on December 4 and 11:59 pm on December 8. On the eve of the holidays there will be no classes and the public function will have a tolerance point. The Government called on the private sector to also fire the workers in these two days.
The Government had already made a correction to the diploma, in order to eliminate trips to cultural events or teams from the list of exceptions to the prohibition of circulation in curfew periods on weekends and holidays, in municipalities with very high and extreme risk of spreading the disease. COVID-19.
