Algarve Situation Report, Wednesday 24th March 2021.
Covid-19 Incidence rate in the Algarve.
The Directorate-General for Health reported this Monday, the incidence rate of new cases registered in the Portuguese counties, in the period of 3rd to 16th of March.
The classification is carried out according to the categories used by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, adding the new cases in the last 14 days, per 100 000 inhabitants.
Base of incidence in the Algarve from March 3rd to 16th:
- Very low: Incidence <30 – Vila Real de Stº António – 21, Vila do Bispo – 19, Olhão – 11, Silves – 8, Monchique – 0
- Low: 30 <Incidence <60 – Albufeira – 55, Lagos – 49, São Brás de Alportel – 38
- Average: 60 <Incidence <120 – Tavira – 118, Portimão – 96, Castro Marim – 96, Loulé – 77, Aljezur – 72, Faro – 64
- Moderate: 120 <Incidence <240 – Lagoa – 127
- High: 240 <Incidence <480 –
- Very High: 480 <Incidence <960 – Alcoutim – 556
- Extremely high: Incidence> 960 –
Alcoutim without cases.
The Alcoutim City Council says it has received information, through the epidemiological bulletin from the local health authority, regarding the evolution of Covid-19 in the municipality, regarding the absence of positive cases.
The municipality thanks in a statement “the commitment of the population, which, while respecting security measures, allowed Alcoutim to reach the mark of zero active cases in Covid-19 this Tuesday”.
Despite today’s data, the chamber maintains the appeal to the population to continue to comply with safety measures, namely the use of the mask, hand hygiene frequently and respect for social distance.
The Mayor of the City, Osvaldo Gonçalves, affirms “we will do everything to continue to defend the interests of our citizens”.
BE wants Government to consider Algarve as “Region of Social and Economic Catastrophe”.
The Bloco de Esquerda (party) / Algarve defends the rapid intervention of the central power in supporting the Algarve, namely the population and companies that suffered from the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
For the party, the Algarve is one of the regions of the country that has suffered the greatest economic and social impact, and the Government should move towards the designation of the Algarve as “Region of Social and Economic Catastrophe, in order to overcome all the bureaucracies that have been hampering the support to the Algarve “, he explained in a statement.
BE criticizes that after the promises made by the Government in July 2020, “practically nothing has evolved in the mitigation of the enormous difficulties that arose with the economic crisis in the region”, having concluded through contacts and meetings with several entities in the Algarve, namely, ACRAL- Algarve; IEFP, Banco Alimentar-Algarve, União dos Sindicatos do Algarve, Algfuturo, RTA, Hospitality Union of the Algarve, among others, “that despair is the common denominator in the region and if nothing is done quickly the situation will reach an extremely serious proportion , with unimaginable social damage “.
Due to the low wages associated with precarious work, it has resulted, according to the party, in thousands of Algarvians being in a “calamitous situation, in addition to the difficulty of companies and the social wound of the overwhelming growth of unemployment, due to the sector of tourism being totally stopped and with very gloomy prospects for the next ‘bathing’ season “.
Given this scenario, the Bloco de Esquerda / Algarve believes it is necessary to move immediately towards extraordinary measures for the region.
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