Algarve Situation Report Wednesday 23^rd June 2021

 

Algarve administered 28,590 Covid-19 vaccines in one week.

The Algarve administered, in a week, 28,590 vaccines against Covid-19, according to data from the bulletin of this Tuesday, June 22, of the General Directorate of Health (DGS).

Compared to last week, 7% more of the Algarve received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, while another 3% finished the process. So far, 42% of the population in the region has already been inoculated with a dose and 27% has completed vaccination.

These numbers mean that 69% of people in the Algarve have already received at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.

In total, 298,448 vaccines have been given in the Algarve (+28,590 in one week).

In Alentejo, 52% of people took a dose (+2%), while 34% (+4%) of Alentejo people have already finished the process.

Algarve is “at full strength to welcome the summer”, according to RTA.

Associação believes in the strength of the Algarve, at a time when some municipalities in the region are facing new restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Algarve Tourism Region (RTA), issued a note highlighting the arrival «of the high summer season in the Algarve at a crucial moment in the resumption of tourist activity», finding «the destination’s Sun and Sea offer in full force».

According to this Association, “not only was the region elected as the Best Beach Destination in the World at the World Travel Awards, the Oscars of world tourism, as well as its beaches, accumulate quality awards that reinforce the reasons for a visit. All in all, that’s 244 extra reasons to choose the Algarve beaches on vacation”.

RTA recalls that “Tavira, with four beaches, and Faro and Vila do Bispo, with three, are among the municipalities with the most ZERO Pollution Beaches in Portugal, a distinction awarded by the environmentalist association ZERO to beaches where no microbiological contamination was detected in the analyses of the bathing waters during the last three bathing seasons. In all, this year the region offers 14 ZERO Pollution Beaches”.

More good news is that the Algarve “is the national region with the highest annual increase in Beaches with Gold Quality, an award given by the environmentalist association Quercus to distinguish the quality of bathing water on Portuguese beaches. A total of 93 beaches in the destination have Golden Quality, and the municipality of Albufeira is the one that shines the most in the whole country, with 20 awarded beaches».

Albufeira is also the leading national municipality in Blue Flags, with a total of 26 awards hoisted on 25 beaches and in the local marina. In 2021, the European Blue Flag Association awarded the Algarve 91 Blue Flags, a symbol of environmental quality that will be flown on 87 beaches and four marinas in the region.

RTA recalls that “last year, the Algarve also offered visitors 45 Accessible Beaches, which unfurl the white flag of the Accessible Beach Program – Praia para Todos to mark bathing areas accessible to people with reduced mobility”.

Finally, concludes the Tourist Association of the region, in November 2020 “the Algarve was distinguished, for the first time, as Best Beach Destination in the World, in the Grand Final of the World Travel Awards, gathering the preference of the main leaders of the tourism and trips from all over the world”.