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Portugal extends Covid alert situation until April 18

  •   Thu, Mar 24 2022 01:57:25 PM

Lisbon, Mar 24 (IANS): The Portuguese government announced the extension of the Covid-19 pandemic "alert situation" until April 18, according to a statement from the Council of Ministers.

This is the lowest level of alert for disaster situations, according to the Portuguese Basic Law for Civil Protection, and was scheduled to renew on March 30, reports Xinhua news agency.

According to the resolution, "the measures currently in force remain unchanged" to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.

Among the measures in force is the mandatory use of a mask in public indoor spaces, health services and transport.

For those who do not have the booster dose of the vaccine against Covid-19, the negative test for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus remains mandatory in visits to homes and health facilities.

The transmissibility index (Rt) of the new coronavirus is at 0.97 at the national level, announced the weekly report of the National Institute of Health Doctor Ricardo Jorge (INSA) released Wednesday.

According to data from the INSA survey, Portugal records an average of 11,389 daily infections every five days.

The BA.2 lineage of the Omicron variant is now "clearly dominant in Portugal, representing 88.7 per cent of positive samples", reveals the Institute's latest report on genetic diversity.

 
  

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  • Nayakmaam, gangolli/Leeds UK

    Thu, Mar 24 2022

    Recently visited Porto, Lisboa and Aveiro with family from the UK. What a sensational place. No racism, no intolerance. People were very welcoming when I told them that I am from South Indian state next to Goa. Goa is still revered as THE place to go by the Portuguese. economy is not that great as it is mostly dependent on tourism, wine and cork ! Weather is much better than in the UK, prices are reasonable and public transport is cheap. Lovely trams and trains. But the roads mostly cobbled, are too narrow, congested and blocked by cars. For a moment, it felt like I was driving on the Udupi Badagupet roads leading to Krishna temple!!! Pastel de nata was sweet & scrumptious

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