Algarve Situation Report, Wednesday 31st March 2021.
ARS wants to vaccinate 70% of the population of the Algarve by the end of August.
70% of Algarvians vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of August. This is the objective set by the Regional Health Administration (ARS) of the Algarve, which, when vaccination is at “cruising speed”, wants to vaccinate 2000 people per day across the region.
The goal was set by Paulo Morgado, president of ARS Algarve, who accompanied, this Sunday, the visit of Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, Minister of Education, to the Pinheiro e Rosa Secondary School, in Faro, one of the educational institutions where it was the second time there was taking place a vaccination day for teachers and school staff.
The official said that “a set of Covid vaccination centres are being prepared in the Algarve, to vaccinate on a large scale, several hundred people per day”.
For now, “there have not been enough vaccines to open these centres”, but Paulo Morgado thinks that, “during the month of April, the country will receive vaccines, in significant quantities. Janssen vaccines will arrive, in a single dose, which will facilitate the whole process”.
According to the ARS president, vaccination centres are being prepared in all coastal cities. In the smaller municipalities, in the interior, “it will be necessary, vaccination will proceed more smoothly”.
Elidérico Viegas resigns as president of AHETA.
Elidérico Viegas will no longer be the president of the Association of Hotels and Tourist Enterprises of the Algarve (AHETA), a position he has held for 25 years, since he helped found this entity in 1995.
The businessman, who has been the face of hoteliers for decades, presented his resignation on Monday, after being called by the other members of the AHETA management to explain statements made to Jornal i, in which the other 
leaders of the association say that “did not review and they cannot subscribe to”.
“In a meeting immediately called, the board heard the explanations by the president and was informed of his intention to resign from this AHETA governing body, which resignation was presented by the President of the General Assembly, Monday, March 29”.
Although the resignation was motivated by divergent views between Elidérico and the other leaders of the association, the AHETA management, in a statement, they made a point of “recognizing the relevant role of the current president of the AHETA management, since the formal constitution of the association, in defence of the interests of tourist companies in the Algarve and in the affirmation of AHETA as the most influential and representative business association in the region, which constitutes itself as the main tourist destination in the country”.
“As a result of this decision, the remaining members of the board in office will request the President of the General Assembly to call for elections for the governing bodies of AHETA, in the shortest possible time, in order to strengthen the intervention capacity of the association in this critical period that tourist companies in the Algarve are and will have to continue to overcome”, they conclude.
https://www.sulinformacao.pt/2021/03/eliderico-viegas-demite-se-de-presidente-da-aheta/