The Council of Ministers rectifies the decree that regulates the limitation of circulation between municipalities of the Azores



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The second amendment to Decree No. 9/2020, of November 21, of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, which regulates the application of the state of emergency decreed by the President of the Republic, has already been published in the Diário da República, regarding a limitation of movement between municipalities, namely the Autonomous Region of the Azores.

The second amendment to the decree corrects throughout the diploma the indication that it is applicable to the entire national territory, clarifying that “it is applicable to the entire continental national territory”, thus excluding the islands.

This means, for example, that the circulation limit in the municipalities, between November 27 and December 2 and between December 4 and December 8, does not apply in the municipalities of the Azores.

It is recalled that on Monday, a source from the office of the representative of the Republic for the Autonomous Region of the Azores informed Lusa that the measures dictated by the Government of the Republic in the new state of emergency due to the pandemic were also applied in the archipelago, this because The initial version of the diploma said 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.

In addition to this measure that does not apply in the Region, there are others that do not apply to the Azores either.

See the rectification in the following link https://dre.pt/web/guest/home/-/dre/149595359/details/maximized?serie=I&day=2020-11-24&date=2020-11-01

For more information, see the Decree at the following link https://dre.pt/web/guest/home/-/dre/149103950/details/maximized



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