Portugal Situation Report Saturday 8th May 2021

 

Introduction

Good morning – The news over the last day or so is very positive: with continued reduction in transmission and incidence rates; the continuing reduction in hospital and ICU cases; vaccinations reaching 100,000 per day ahead of schedule; the reduction in the number of municipalities that are not at the last phase of de-confinement, and the announcement by the UK yesterday evening the Portugal has been included in its so called Green List concerning travel from England”

This is a very positive start to the weekend and good news for Portugal.
Not everything runs to clockwork in crisis situations, there are bound to be setbacks, but over the last few days it has been generally positive. In the lead up to the Council of Ministers meeting there was the usual speculation, this time being the changes concerning the movement of municipalities forward, back and remaining where they are. The end result is that in the entire country there are now only four municipalities not in the final phase, plus the two parishes of Odemira, where at present a health cordon remains in place.

This means of course, coupled with the reopening of the border with Spain, that the number of movements have increased considerably and with that the potential risk of the spread of Covid-19. However so far in the last week this has not materialised – in fact transmission and incidence rates have fallen to the lowest levels since March. With this good news it would be easy to become complacent and let our guard down. However we are not yet at a stage of normality. Vaccinations, although progressing well will still take some months before we are at a state of immunity, and there are variants to be aware off, which are being monitored very closely. Social distancing, hygiene, the wearing of face masks will be with us for some time until a stage where the risk is minimalised, allowing a return to a normal lifestyle.

Yesterday UK’s Transport Secretary Grant Shapps yesterday announced the list of countries on the Green List which includes Portugal (including Madeira and Azores). He said the list will be reviewed every three weeks from reopening. However, some green list countries may continue to place restrictions on UK travellers, including quarantine measures, so passengers are encouraged to check all requirements and FCDO travel advice before they book any foreign travel.
From the UK perspective, as we understand it at the moment, anyone travelling from England to a “green” list destination will have to have a negative PCR test before they leave and provide one for when they return home.

Currently Portugal is only allowing UK arrivals into Portugal for essential reasons and the current Order is due to expire 23.59 hrs 16th May 2021. Yesterday the President of Regional Tourism Algarve João Fernandes, stated “It is important that Portugal, in the next review of the state of calamity, does not condition travel to Portugal only for essential trips. That will be decisive”. We await an update from the Portuguese Government as to when and if this decree will change

I earlier mentioned media speculation, but also in the last few days we have noticed several negative news headlines, which bear little resemblance to the actual story. Nothing new in this, but it seems a pity at a time when we are clearly moving forward, tabloid journalism creates an atmosphere of negativity sometimes based on apparent poor research.  Also there has been some question marks as to accuracy and it seems that in the rush to create headline news, some of the fundamental elements of journalism are being lost, namely validating where possible and credibility of sources. We often at Safe Communities hold back on information to try and ensure as much accuracy as possible, even if that means not being first with the news.

Anyway with that let’s have a positive and Safe Weekend

 

Headlines

Covid-19: Costa says that problems are in the production of vaccines and regulation of the medicine market

The Prime Minister considers that the fundamental problems in access to vaccines against covid-19, more than in the lifting of patents, are in the production capacity and in the regulation of the drug market worldwide. “The crucial problem is focused on production capacity. And there is a fundamental problem related to the regulation of the medicine market and that States have to organize themselves globally to find other ways with the pharmaceutical industry to finance research” , stated António Costa in an interview with Lusa.
Faced with the proposal of an international movement led by India and South Africa in favour of the release of patents on vaccines against covid-19, the leader of the Portuguese executive admits this debate.

However, for the Prime Minister of Portugal, a country that presides over the Council of the European Union (EU) until the end of June, the problem in India and other countries “is not precisely in the holding or not holding of the patent, but in the capacity to have increased production capacity on a global scale “. “There is a fundamental problem with the pharmaceutical industry, which is one of the few where funding for fundamental research is provided predominantly by private funding. It has been the case in the pharmaceutical industry over the years and, therefore, this remuneration of research costs is then made ‘a posteriori’ in the payment of the price “of the medicine or vaccine, points out António Costa.

In the Prime Minister’s view, “this situation” creates a very complex problem on a global scale. “Since the income gap between countries is brutal, the cost of a medicine that is accessible to us in Europe can be absolutely unbearable in other countries, with income levels that are much lower than ours,” he says. Regarding the problem generated by the fight against the pandemic, the Prime Minister points out that “the concrete issue is fundamentally centred on a problem of supply capacity”.
“In the case of covid-19, for the first time, I believe, it was necessary on a global scale to ensure the supply of the same good to all of humanity.

Covid -19

On Friday Portugal recorded 1 more death and 377 new cases of   covid-19, according to the DGS report.

Confirmed Cases: 838.852 (+ 377 / + 0.04 %)
Number of admitted: 280 (-3 /-1.06 %)
Number of ICU admitted: 75 (-2 /-2.60 %)
Deaths: 16.989 (+ 1 / + 0.01 %)
Recovered: 799.442 (+ 490 / + 0.06 %)
Active cases: 22,421 (- 114 /- 0.5%)

Safe Communities comparisons/trends: show that deaths are below last weeks’ average (2); new daily cases are below last weeks’ daily average (405) and 5th lowest since 7th September 2020 and recovered cases more than new cases. Those in hospital are the lowest for over a year since 26th March 2020 (then 191) and in ICU being the lowest since 21st September 2020. Active cases continued a moderate decrease being the lowest since 23rd September 2020

 

Health

Self-scheduling for over 60s planning to start next week

Editorial Staff, May 7, 2021 (Lusa) – Self-scheduling for vaccination against the covid-19 should start to include people from 60 years old, instead of the current 65, by the end of next week, the “task force” source told Lusa yesterday.
“As this is a complex and massive system that is in transition, it was decided in this initial phase to open self-scheduling only to people over 65, and it is expected to open self-scheduling to people over 60 at the end next week or beginning of the next ”, replied the ‘task force’ to a question sent by Lusa.
The measure aims to continue the increase in the rate of vaccination – which reached about 100 thousand doses administered on Thursday for the first time -, in order to have the entire age group above 60 years of age vaccinated with at least the first dose “Until the end of May or in the third week of May”, as the Minister of Health, Marta Temido, anticipated on April 21.

Covid-19 Variants

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The most recent report by DGS and INSA monitoring red lines for covid-19 shows that the estimated prevalence of the Manaus (Brazil) variant in the country increased from 0.4% in March to 4.3 %, in April. Unsurprisingly, the variant associated with the United Kingdom remains the most prevalent in Portuguese territory, with a prevalence of 91.2%. In addition, until May 5, 101 cases of the Manaus (Brazil) variant were confirmed, another 16 since the last report. The estimated prevalence of this variant increased from 0.4% (in March) to 4.3% (in April).
In an inverse trend, the presence of the South African variant decreased from 2.5% to 1.3%, last month, with 77 cases identified.
It should also be noted that, so far, seven cases of the Indian variant have been confirmed.

 

One Hundred thousand vaccine target reached

“About 100 thousand vaccines were administered on Thursday, a number that should also be registered today, thus anticipating the initial expectation by about a week”, said the structure that coordinates the logistics of vaccination in Portugal in information sent to Lusa on Friday. According to this team led by Vice Admiral Gouveia e Melo, this result of vaccinating 100 thousand people a day “was only possible with the implementation of the self-scheduling process , which allowed a significant increase in the rate of vaccination, despite some setbacks verified in the process “.

On April 23, the portal for self-scheduling for vaccination came into operation, which had registered, until the beginning of this week, about 206 thousand registrations for taking the vaccine. With the entry of the second phase of the vaccination plan and a greater availability of vaccines by pharmaceutical supplying companies, the rate of vaccination is increasing significantly.

Covid-19. UK raises risk of variant discovery in India

The Directorate-General for Health of England (PHE) has announced that the number of infections with variant B.1.617.2 has more than doubled, from 202 to 520 in a week, which is causing concern among health authorities.
According to PHE, “the evidence suggests that this variant, first detected in India, is at least as transmissible as B.1.1.7 (Kent’s variant)”. However, he says the other features “are still being investigated”.

There are two other variants also discovered in India (B.1.617 and B.1.617.3) under monitoring in the United Kingdom that have also been increasing, but at lower values. According to the authorities, “almost half of the cases are related to travel or contact with travellers”, and although spread across the country, the majority of cases are concentrated in the northwest areas, namely Bolton, and London.

Additional testing in these areas is being implemented to contain outbreaks

UK limits AstraZeneca vaccine to people over 40

The scientific committee that oversees the anti-covid-19 vaccination campaign in the United Kingdom recommended limiting the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine to people over 40, after 242 cases of blood clots have been reported. The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization, JCVI, which emphasizes that the benefits continue to outweigh the risks associated with covid-19, had already advised in April not to give this vaccine to older adults. 30 years when it was possible.

However, the offer of another vaccine to this age group should only happen when there are alternative drugs and “if there is no substantial delay or impediment in accessing vaccination,” said the president of JCVI, Wei Shen Lim, at a press conference.
“If the vaccination program continues in force, a future wave of infections is likely to be less than initially anticipated given what we know about vaccines” in terms of reducing complications and transmitting the disease, he maintained. According to the data announced this Friday, among more than 28 million doses of the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford administered until April 28, 242 cases of blood clots have been identified , an incidence of 10.5 cases per million.

Covid-19: WHO approves emergency use of Chinese Sinopharm vaccine

The World Health Organization (WHO) approved this Friday the emergency use of Sinopharm’s covid-19 Chinese vaccine, recommending its administration to people over 18 years old. t is the first Chinese vaccine to be approved by the WHO and the sixth of all vaccines against covid-19 approved by the organization.
The announcement was made at the WHO’s regular press conference call on the covid-19 pandemic, broadcast from the organization’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

The vaccine produced by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm is recommended for people over the age of 18, and should be administered in two doses with an interval of two to three weeks. Despite continuing to evaluate data on the vaccine, as it is provided by the laboratory, the WHO group of experts considers that Sinopharm’s formula meets the requirements for safety, efficacy and quality.

 

 

Algarve Situation Report  Saturday 1st May 2021

 

Aljezur maintains highest incidence in the Algarve, Portimão below Lagos and VRSA

Aljezur, with 465 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, in 14 days, remains, for the second consecutive week, the Algarve municipality with the highest incidence of Covid-19, according to data released this Friday, April 30, by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS).

Even so, Aljezur has a lower incidence than a week ago, when it had 501 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants.

These numbers were so high that they justified the decision taken yesterday in the Council of Ministers to make the Costa Vicentina municipality retreat in the process of deflation, returning to the phase of 5 April. The restaurants will only be able to operate with a terrace – and 4 people – until 10:30 pm during the week and 1:00 pm at the weekend.

Interestingly, according to DGS data, referring to the period between 14 and 27 April, Portimão, with 159 cases / 100 thousand inhabitants, had a lower incidence than Lagos (171), or Vila Real de Santo António (181), both municipalities that from tomorrow follow the rest of the country entering the fourth and final phase of deflation.

Portimão, on the other hand, was forced to maintain itself, at least another week, in the previous phase to which it had retreated fifteen days ago (closed terraces, sales to the wicket/entrance). Mayor Isilda Gomes has already announced that today, at the end of the afternoon, she will have an emergency meeting with Prime Minister António Costa to talk about this matter.

Returning to the 14-day cumulative incidence data, by municipality, Alcoutim and São Brás de Alportel are the only municipalities in the Algarve that have zero incidence, since they have not registered any new case of Covid-19 for at least three weeks.

https://www.sulinformacao.pt/2021/04/aljezur-mantem-incidencia-mais-alta-do-algarve-portimao-abaixo-de-lagos-e-vrsa/

 

The Mayor of Portimão, Isilda Gomes, will meet today with urgency with the Prime Minister

Portimão, Faro, April 30, 2021 (Lusa) – The Mayor of Portimão, Isilda Gomes, will meet today with urgency with the Prime Minister following the Government’s decision to keep the municipality in the same phase of the deflationary process it was announced today.

In a statement, the municipality indicated that the hearing requested “as a matter of urgency” from the prime minister, is scheduled for 18:00, at the São Bento Palace, in Lisbon.

The meeting was requested by Isilda Gomes (PS) “due to the decisions taken on Thursday in the Council of Ministers, which prevent Portimão from resuming the process of deflation”.

Isilda Gomes, cited in the note from the municipality of the district of Faro, expressed “great disappointment by the decision taken [by the Government], felt, once again, as a huge injustice”.

Portimão, which retreated to the second phase of the deflation 15 days ago, is one of eight municipalities out of 278 in mainland Portugal that does not advance on Saturday to the fourth and last phase of the deflation plan defined by the Government with the country’s entry into a situation of calamity, replacing the state of emergency.

Also prevented from proceeding to the fourth phase are Miranda do Douro, Paredes and Valongo, which remain at the level they are at, and Aljezur, Resende, Carregal do Sal, who retreated to different stages, but who are also retained, although may be “for a very short time”, because the Government has decided to carry out a weekly assessment.

According to data released by the municipality, Portimão counted on Thursday 39 active cases of infections by covid-19 in the municipality, a number below the limit of 67 cases, based on 120 per 100 thousand inhabitants.

In the accumulated period of 14 days used by the Government to define the rules of the deflation, there was a reduction of 200 cases in Portimão, accounting for an accumulated of 70 cases on Thursday, but only 39 of which were active.

The evaluation criteria used by the Government to define the rules of lack of definition have been criticized by the mayors, considering that they do not reflect the reality of cases of covid-19, unfairly penalizing the populations.

Algarve Situation Report Wednesday April 28th

 

Covid-19: Aljezur asks the Government to review contagion accounting criteria.

The Mayor of Aljezur, asked the Government to revise the formula for accounting for contagions by Covid-19 and to take into account the particularity of each municipality.

After an extended meeting of the civil protection commission this afternoon, José Gonçalves told Lusa that temporary workers “are not counted” in the population of about 5,800 inhabitants of the municipality, a value that serves as the basis for calculations of the confinement rules , but “if they become infected, they are included”.

“We need to change this. It is an injustice. The contagion situation is not addressed in this way” he stated.

In Aljezur, “14 infected people” are needed for the municipality to reach the level of 240 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in 14 days, a value from which there is a greater restriction on the lack of definition.

In the bulletin released last Friday, the municipality of Aljezur recorded 501 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in 14 days, referring to the period between 07 and 20 April.

On March 11, at the presentation of the de-confinement plan, the Prime Minister, António Costa, warned that the reopening measures will be revised whenever Portugal exceeds “120 new cases per day per 100 thousand inhabitants in 14 days” or whenever the R(t) – the average number of secondary cases that result from a case infected by the virus – exceeds 1.


Formula 1 has already arrived at the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in Portimão.

The biggest motorsport competition has already arrived in Portugal, for the third race of this year. The teams’ trucks and motorhomes already fill the parking lot of the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve and the paddock for the Formula 1 Heineken Grande Prémio de Portugal, which takes place this weekend.

The first two races of the 2021 season were marked by intensified competition between Max Verstappen, a Red Bull driver, and Lewis Hamilton, of Mercedes.

Both with 1 victory conquered in the season so far, everything indicates that next Sunday we will see a very intense race.

In his last race in Portugal, Hamilton became the driver with the most victories in F1 history, in the year he won his 7th world title.

This weekend could be marked by another record for Lewis Hamilton, who could become the first F1 driver to reach 100 pole positions.



Algarve Situation Report Saturday 24th April 2021

PS Algarve wants more tests and vaccination in critical counties

President of the Socialist Party (PS) Algarve and socialist deputies want more tests and vaccination in municipalities with more than 120 and 240 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants.

The president of the PS Algarve Federation, Luís Graça and the Socialist Party deputies elected by the Algarve, asked the government for exceptional measures to mitigate and combat the pandemic in the municipalities where there are more than 120 and 240 positive cases per 100 thousand inhabitants, as well as support to companies that, after reopening their business, may have to close again.

In a meeting this Monday, April 19, with the Secretary of State responsible for the coordination of COVID-19 in the Algarve and the Regional Health Administration on the pandemic situation and the vaccination process in the region, the parliamentarians Luís Graça, Jamila Madeira, Joaquina Matos, Ana Passos, and Francisco Oliveira recalled that the Algarve is a safe region, where globally the Rt index is below 1, considering that the outbreaks verified in some municipalities need a more prompt and incisive action by the authorities in order to quickly stop the transmission of the virus by the community.

In this sense, they propose, as in Lisbon, the creation of a special coordination commission in the municipalities where there are more than 240 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants.

 

Ryanair will operate Belfast and Faro route this summer

Low-cost airline Ryanair announced today that it will operate this summer the route between George Best airport in Belfast and Faro airport.

Ryanair has reduced rates for all new bookings made before June 30 this year, for travel until October 31 this year, the low cost airline said in a statement.

Belfast Airport’s Aviation Development Officer, Ellie McGimpsey, said he was “excited” about re-establishing the connection between Faro and Belfast, the statement said.

 

 

 

MotoGP Grand Prix in Portimão generated almost 7 million euros of media return in national media

The MotoGP Grand Prix returned to Portugal, more specifically to the Autódromo Internacional do Algarve, in Portimão, and returned to arouse strong media interest around the race: the event that took place on Sunday, April 18, generated almost 1,600 news in Portuguese media.

According to the Clipping Media monitor service, of the Marktest Group, in the week between April 14 and 20, 1,599 news items were identified in the Portuguese media, which represented a financial return of 6.632 million euros.

Media monitor’s analysis finds that the vast majority of the news was published in online media (1,135), at a great distance from the press (67 news), radio (101) and television (296).

Even so, it was television that led the media return associated with the competition: the 296 news items identified on national channels translate an estimated return of more than 4.3 million euros, which means two thirds (66%) of the total financial return that the event spawned in the Portuguese media.

 

Tavira will exempt payment of rent for municipal housing until the end of the year

The municipality of Tavira will exempt, until the end of the year, 570 tenants from paying municipal housing rents.

This decision by the municipality follows a set of exceptional and temporary measures to minimize the impact of the crisis that is reflected in the social fabric.

“The economic and social vulnerability of families comes from the loss of jobs and, consequently, a drop in household income”, says the local authority.

“The financial health of many companies, particularly in the tourism sector, has been considerably affected, putting hundreds of jobs at risk and a significant number of families have seen their monthly budget drop dramatically,” he adds.

In view of this reality, the municipality “considers it essential to reinforce support in terms of social action”, assuming that the recovery of household income will be slow and progressive.

“The growing demand for social responses of primary necessity led to the duplication of face-to-face assistance, with a particular focus on the level of food aid, as well as assistance in supporting essential expenses (water, electricity, and medication, among others)”, he concludes.

https://www.algarveprimeiro.com/d/camara-de-tavira-aprova-isencao-do-pagamento-de-rendas-de-habitacao-municipal-ate-ao-fim-do-ano/37901-4

 

Algarve Situation Report, Wednesday April 14th 2021

 

Schools in the Algarve with 13 outbreaks and 42 classes in isolation – authorities.
The Algarve has 13 outbreaks of Covid-19 in day care centres, kindergartens and elementary schools, with 42 classes in isolation, a total of 101 people involved, including students and staff.
According to the regional health delegate, compared to previous periods, there is now “a greater incidence in children”, with infected children who “managed to make more than 20 secondary cases”, transmitting the virus within the classroom and to their families.
“We noticed at this stage, as of March 15, that there were more positive children than there would have been in previous situations. We attribute this to a possibility that the virus [now] has a greater appetite for younger age groups”, underlined Ana Cristina Guerreiro at a press conference in Loulé.
However, despite the increase in the number of cases in schools, the official stressed that the sites of transmission of the new coronavirus “continue to be, in most cases, inside homes”, with “whole” families infected, partly because if you “lost your fear” of the disease.
According to Ana Cristina Guerreiro, there is also an increase in the number of children infected and showing symptoms, although it is a mild symptom, characterized by “diarrhoea, cough and rhinorrhoea [excessive runny nose]”.
Regarding the outbreak in two schools in the parish of Montenegro, in Faro, Ana Cristina Guerreiro said that the epidemiological situation is “contained” and that children and their families in isolation, although over the 14 days of isolation, new cases may arise related with this outbreak.
https://www.algarveprimeiro.com/d/Covid-19-escolas-no-algarve-com-13-surtos-e-42-turmas-em-isolamento-autoridades/37713-1


PSP ends illegal party in Faro that involved 18 people.
The Public Security Police (PSP) went yesterday to a residence in the city of Faro, where a private party was supposedly taking place.
On the Facebook page of the Faro District Command of the PSP, it is read that when the agents arrived at the place, they encountered a private party, in which the door of the residence was open, “with a group of about 18 citizens, 5 women and 13 men, of different nationalities, mostly students, many of them completely drunk, with food scraps and bottles of drinks scattered on the floor and tables.”
In addition to ending the party, the PSP identified 16 people, 16 administrative offences were recorded for failure to comply with the duty of home collection, and a news report was prepared sent to the court because there were indications of the practice of a crime of common danger. Two more charges were also raised to the promoters of the event.


Pina condemns “unnecessary alarmism” that harms the Algarve.
Comments on the pandemic situation in the Algarve “are unfair and incorrect” laments António Miguel Pina.
At the regional press conference on the epidemiological situation in the Algarve, which took place on Monday, April 12, António Miguel Pina, president of AMAL – Intermunicipal Community of the Algarve, wanted to clarify that “some comments on the lack of testing capacity in the region are not true, they are unfair and incorrect”.
“There is a great capacity and there is even a great capacity that powers it”, he stated, giving as an example the Portimão City Council, which due to the outbreak in the civil construction sector made “more than five thousand tests”.
The important question, according to the Mayor of Olhão, “is to remove some alarmism in communication, which occurred in the last week, regarding the image of the Algarve. Almost half of the cases in the region originated in just two outbreaks. Everything indicates that the situation of these outbreaks is controlled, as a result of the great work of public health and the City Council of Portimão. We hope that by the end of the week the situation will calm down, but this is a message that needs to be conveyed”.
The President of AMAL added that “the country looked at the Algarve in the last week and wondered what was going on here. What happens is what will happen in the rest of the country and we will get used to living in these small waves. Two outbreaks appear, it increases significantly, a lot of tests are done, we control and it decreases. You can come back later. It is necessary to be calm and not enter into unnecessary alarmism”.
https://barlavento.sapo.pt/algarve/pina-condena-alarmismo-desnecessario-que-prejudica-o-algarve


Mayor of Vila Real de Santo António arrested on suspicion of corruption.
Mayor of the municipality was not in the premises and was detained. At issue is the sale of land to the construction company. PGR reported that four people were arrested on suspicion of corruption, undue receipt of advantage and abuse of power in the intermediation of a real estate business in Monte Gordo.



Algarve Situation Report, Wednesday 7th April 2021.
Faro: “Estaminé” rises from the ashes to open again in July
The only restaurant on Ilha Deserta, in Faro, which burned down on March 2nd, will rise again.
The team of the company “Animaris”, which will give shape to the project, returned to the island to start the debris removal work. The 33 employees of the company join the owner of the restaurant José Vargas, who, with the support of his family, decided not to let his arms down and set out to rebuild the well-known “Estaminé”.
According to José Vargas, the structure will be identical to the previous one, “a self-sufficient restaurant that respects, protects and is fully integrated into the landscape and the surrounding nature”.
The reconstruction of the structure can be followed through the social networks: instagram and facebook of the restaurant, where an updated photo of the process will be shared every week.
The goal is to reopen the space next July.
It is recalled that after the fire, the restaurant owner estimated the damage caused by the flames at more than one million euros, taking into account that the destruction was total.


Requalification and expansion of the Misericórdia de São Brás de Alportel Nursing Home has a cost of 2 million.
In São Brás de Alportel, the project for the expansion and requalification of the entire Home for the Third Age of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia is underway.
According to a note from the Municipality, the work on the building of the Residential Structure for the Elderly (ERPI), Day Center and Home Support Service of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia of São Brás de Alportel will allow the replacement of 85 beds, in cooperation with the Social Security.
The extended area that will be built from scratch, will have 12 new double rooms, a living room and activities with pantry. The existing area will be preserved, whose remodeling “aims to improve the comfort of those who work and live in this space”, points out the municipality.
The execution of the project prepared by Arquitrulho, Lda, was awarded to the company Martins Gago & Filhos, Lda, for the value of 2,091,922.95 euros.
An investment that is financed by community funds from Portugal 2020 – CRESCAlgarve, but also with support from the Rainha D. Leonor Fund (Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa and União das Misericórdias Portuguesas) and the Municipality of São Brás de Alportel.
https://www.algarveprimeiro.com/d/requalificacao-e-ampliacao-do-lar-de-terceira-idade-da-misericordia-de-sao-bras-de-alportel-tem-um-custo-de-2-milhoes/37617-4