Algarve Situation report Wednesday 22^nd December 2021

Algarve reinforces the regional strategy to combat COVID-19 for the coming months.

The Secretary of State Coordinator of the Calamity situation for the Algarve Region, Jorge Botelho, meets this week by sector with each intervention zone (Barlavento, Central and Sotavento), involving mayors, authorities and health services for a full articulation with the structure Civil Protection, with a view to designing the line of action for the coming months.

 Meetings are scheduled for Monday and Tuesday with each of the intervention sectors provided for in the organization implemented in the region, resulting from the activation of the Civil Protection Emergency Plan, which coincide with the areas of influence of each Health Center Group (ACES) of the Regional Health Administration (ARS) of the Algarve.

The first sector coordination meeting took place on December 20, and was dedicated to the ACES Barlavento sector, in which, in addition to the president of the Regional Health Administration Paulo Morgado, the Regional Emergency and Civil Protection Commander Vítor Vaz Pinto and the regional health delegate Ana Cristina Guerreiro, the mayors, as municipal authorities for Civil Protection, from the municipalities of Aljezur, Lagoa, Lagos, Monchique, Portimão, Silves and Vila do Bispo, the executive director of ACES Algarve II – Barlavento and respective Health Delegates.

The main objective of the working day is, based on an epidemiological situation and predictable evolution, to anticipate measures and adjust the support that has been materialized by the civil protection structures to the bodies of the National Health Service (NHS) that are committed to combating this international public health emergency.

Vaccination will also be a dominant theme due to the important phase in which it is now and the recently known designs in its planning.

Tomorrow, Tuesday, will follow the sectorial coordination meetings of ACES Central in which the mayors of Albufeira, Faro, Loulé, Olhão and São Brás de Alportel and ACES Sotavento participate, which will count on the participation of the mayors of Alcoutim, Castro Marim, Tavira and Vila Real de Santo António.

This Christmas, 350 families from São Brás de Alportel receive solidarity baskets

This Christmas marked again by the pandemic and the crisis, the “Cabaz Solidário da Consoada” is reaching three and a half hundred homes in São Brás de Alportel, integrating in this edition a greater number of families.

The Consoada Solidarity Basket is an initiative promoted, in partnership, by the Municipality and the Parish Council of São Brás de Alportel, coordinating entities of the Local Platform for Food Aid, which is headquartered in the Social Store of São Brás de Alportel, with collaboration from all platform partners – local nucleus of Cáritas, Salvation Army, CCD – Center for Culture and Sports of Workers of the City Council and Parish Council and Santa Casa da Misericórdia of São Brás de Alportel.

Through the “Natal Solidário” program, in addition to food and essential goods, families also receive gifts for the little ones. In a press release, the Chamber explains that this solidarity action is made possible “by hosting the “Anjinhos de Natal” project, made possible thanks to the committed collaboration of the local Salvation Army nucleus, which counts on the generosity of a group of Algarvian groups from social beneficence’.