Algarve Situation Report Wednesday 5th May 2021
Covid-19: Portimão Vaccination Centre today exceeds five thousand inoculated vaccines.
In a statement, the municipality states that, since it started operating on April 26, the Portimão Vaccination Centre has administered 4,924 vaccines against Covid-19.
According to the same source, the goal is to cover the entire population of the municipality over 60 years old by next Friday, May 7.
These figures reflect that, the municipality was covered by a booster vaccine and obtained extraordinary authorization to start vaccinating locals over 60 years of age, due to the outbreaks that led to the setback in the process of deflation and the consequent autarchic request for the opening of the Vaccination Centre in Portimão.
Installed in the Sports Pavilion of Portimão, the structure started with an average of 300 vaccines/day, evolving to 1,000 vaccines/day since the reinforcement in the meantime verified, and it is estimated that a total of 10,000 vaccines will be reached by the end of this phase.
The municipality advances that, in the maximum exponent of its capacity, the Centre is vaccinating a greater number of people than that found in any other similar structure in the Algarve region; it should be noted that in the moments of queuing the average waiting is between at 7 and 10 minutes, with an average vaccination peak in the order of 130 inoculations/hour.
Municipal Vaccination Centre of Loulé with capacity for 400 inoculations daily.
The Municipal Vaccination Centre of Loulé, installed in the Municipal Sports Pavilion of the city, which went into operation on the 27th of April, has a capacity for 400 daily inoculations, which may be higher if necessary and the 
number of vaccines to be administered so justify, the municipality assured in a statement.
According to the same document, the Centre has 5 vaccination points, with the possibility of expansion. It also includes a reception area, pre-vaccination space and recovery area, where users must remain up to 30 minutes after inoculation.
It operates daily, including weekends and holidays, from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, and, in addition to health professionals, it also relies permanently on elements of the Civil Protection Service, security forces and municipal officials “who provide support, whether in terms of cleaning space, psychological, administrative support or even monitoring users “, notes the city council.
The Loulé Vaccination Centre was born out of a partnership between the municipality, which provided the space and supported all the logistics necessary for the installation, the ARS and the services of the Ministry of Health.
Remember that, in order to be immunized against Covid-19, residents must be invited for vaccination by contacting the Health Centre, but may, at this stage, make an online request for scheduling through the Directorate-General for Health website ( https://covid19.min-saude.pt/pedido-de-aghecimento/ )
Covid-19: VRSA already has a Vaccination Centre in operation.
Equipment has a capacity for 250 inoculations daily.
The Covid-19 Vaccination Centre in Vila Real de Santo António (VRSA) is already in operation, complying with all the guidelines of the Directorate-General for Health with a view to effecting massive vaccination of the population.
Installed in the Ilídio Setúbal Pavilion, next to the Sports Complex of VRSA, the new equipment will have the capacity to administer 250 vaccines daily, with a clinical and technical staff of about 15 professionals and respecting all the rules of the national vaccination protocol.
Access is reserved for people who have already been contacted and have a valid appointment (with date and time), intended to receive residents from all parishes in the municipality, according to the priorities and stages established by the vaccination plan. The place has easy access and parking, being properly adapted for people with reduced mobility, and the entry is made through Avenida Ministro Duarte Pacheco, next to the commercial area there.
The structure has six distinct areas, namely the area for admission, reception, pre-vaccination, vaccination, post-vaccination/recovery and emergency, with pre-defined circulation corridors and complying with all the prevention and hygiene measures provided by the authorities of health. It operates from Monday to Saturday, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, remaining in operation until the National Vaccination Plan against Covid-19 is completed.
https://barlavento.sapo.pt/algarve/covid-19-vrsa-ja-tem-em-funcionamento-um-centro-de-vacinacao
Faro Council offers free transportation to the local vaccination centre.
Faro Council has announced that it is offering free transportation to the local vaccination centre for citizens aged over 60 or with mobility problems.
To benefit from this service, citizens can call a taxi by telephone (800 219 019) between 9am and 6pm.
The citizen’s name must be provided, as well as their address and the date and hour of their vaccination.
Lagos Municipal Police is already in operation.
In this initial phase, 12 agents are on the ground.
The Mayor of Lagos, Hugo Pereira, received yesterday, Monday, May 3, the first agents who were part of the Municipal Police Service and started to exercise their functions in this new administrative police body in that city.
The Regulations for the Operation of the Municipal Police Service provide that this new structure will have, during the installation period, a staff of 26, consisting of a commander, a graduate (Chief Coordinator) and up to 24 agents.
In this first phase, the twelve trainee agents who have completed their training start their duties, to which seven more will subsequently join, currently attending the training given by the FEFAL Foundation, followed by the training given by the PSP School and a period of six months of internship.
At the reception, the 12 trainee agents who started functions in the field attended, in uniform, but also the seven elements who are already in training, because, as mentioned by Paulo Reis, the vice-president of the Chamber who has this area assigned, despite being in different phases of internship, “these agents are all part of the same team, where the spirit of camaraderie and understanding must prevail”.
Mayor Hugo Pereira left words of encouragement to the new agents, confident that “they will be up to the task of overcoming the challenges inherent to the role”.
Underlining the context of a pandemic, the President of Lagos underlined “the important role of the Municipal Police in enforcing public health measures in force, especially in this phase of lack of definition and resumption of economic and tourist activity, as well as restoring respect for space public, especially in the area of the historic centre, which will be another of the priorities for action”.
The staff of the Municipal Police Corps will be provisionally accommodated in the Old Town Halls and, in the future, in the building of the old Tourism Office, where they will move after carrying out the necessary adaptation works for this new function.
https://barlavento.sapo.pt/algarve/policia-municipal-de-lagos-ja-esta-em-funcionamento