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Among the restriction measures announced by the Government on Saturday for 121 higher-risk municipalities, the civic duty of citizens to refrain from “circulating in public spaces and roads”, as well as “as in private spaces and roads equivalent to roads public, and stay at home ”. However, there are exceptions, considered “authorized trips”. According to the resolution of the Council of Ministers published this Monday at the end of the day in the Diário da República, travel to:
a) Acquisition of goods and services;
b) Traveling for the purpose of carrying out professional or similar activities;
c) Looking for work or responding to a job offer;
d) Displacement for health reasons, that is, in order to obtain medical care and transportation of people to whom such care or blood donation must be administered;
e) Displacement for the emergency reception of victims of domestic violence or trafficking in persons, as well as children and young people at risk, through the application of a measure decreed by a judicial authority or the National Commission for the Promotion of Rights and Protection of Children and Youth, in a residential or family home;
f) Travel to assist vulnerable people, people with disabilities, children, parents, the elderly or dependents;
g) The travel of minors and their companions to attend schools, nurseries and leisure activities;
h) Displacement of people with disabilities to attend occupational activity centers;
i) Travel to access cultural facilities;
j) Short trips for physical activity purposes;
k) Travel to participate in social volunteering actions;
l) Displacement for other imperative family reasons, namely, compliance with shared parental responsibility, as determined by agreement between the holders thereof or by the competent court;
m) Trips to schools;
n) Visiting trips, when authorized, or delivery of essential goods to people with disabilities or deprived of freedom of movement;
o) Traveling to participate in procedural acts with judicial bodies or in acts of the competence of notaries, lawyers, solicitors and registry officials;
p) Short trips for the purpose of walking pets and feeding animals;
q) Travel of veterinarians, animal caretakers for medical-veterinary assistance, colony caretakers recognized by the municipalities, volunteers from zoophilic associations with dependent animals that need to travel to animal shelters and municipal veterinary services for collection and animal assistance;
r) The trips of people with free transit, issued in legal terms, in the exercise of their functions or by reason of them;
s) Travel of the personnel of diplomatic missions, consular and international organizations located in Portugal, provided they are related to the performance of official functions;
t) Travel necessary to exercise freedom of the press;
u) Personal return home;
v) Travel to the frequency of training and tests and examinations;
w) Trips for visits to users of residential structures for the elderly and for people with disabilities, integrated continuous care units of the National Integrated Care Network and other responses dedicated to the elderly, as well as for activities carried out in day centers;
x) Travel to post offices and post offices, bank branches and agencies of insurance intermediaries or insurance companies;
y) Travel necessary to leave mainland Portugal;
z) Moving to other activities of a similar nature or for other reasons of force majeure or imperative need, provided that it is duly justified.
Lisbon and Porto are two of the 121 municipalities covered by the most restrictive measures announced by the Prime Minister this Saturday, which will mean changes in the lives of 7.1 million inhabitants throughout the country. Thus, the Government decided to proceed with the risk maps, for the amount of 240 new cases per 100,000 inhabitants, but also for the proximity to another municipality that meets the quantitative criteria.
According to the list published by the Government, all the municipalities of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area are covered by the new measures, including Alcochete, Almada, Amadora, Barreiro, Cascais, Lisboa, Loures, Mafra, Moita, Montijo, Odivelas, Oeiras, Palmela, Seixal, Sesimbra, Setúbal, Sintra and Vila Franca de Xira.
The northern region is one of the most affected and all the district capitals are included in the list, namely Viana do Castelo, Braga, Vila Real, Bragança and Porto, as well as municipalities such as Gondomar, Guimarães, Maia, Matosinhos, Ovar and Póvoa de Varzim.
The inhabitants of the 121 municipalities, whose list can be consulted here, are thus limited from November 4 to November 15 to the following provisions:
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