{"id":8538,"date":"2021-12-22T08:25:19","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/?p=8538"},"modified":"2021-12-22T08:25:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T08:25:21","slug":"portugal-measures-before-noel-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/portugal-mesures-avant-noel-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Portugal introduces new measures before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Ant\u00f3nio Costa has just announced the early implementation of some measures originally planned for the first week of January and other measures have been announced&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Covid-19: Portugal introduces new measures before Christmas&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The compulsory week of confinement originally scheduled for the week after New Year's Day has been brought forward to next week, i.e. from December 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"We are going to anticipate a series of measures at the beginning of next week,\" declared Ant\u00f3nio Costa, at the end of the extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting held yesterday, Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/teletravail-au-portugal-regle\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8532\">teleworking will be mandatory<\/a>The closing of cr\u00e8ches, day-care centers, discotheques and bars has been brought forward to midnight on December 25.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From this date onwards, a negative Covid-19 test will be required for access to tourist establishments and local accommodation, for ceremonies such as weddings and christenings, and for business events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Presentation of the test has also been extended to all cultural events and sports venues, whatever their capacity. Until now, the test was only compulsory for shows with more than five thousand spectators in open spaces or one thousand in closed spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commercial spaces will once again be subject to a capacity limit: one person for every five square meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the new measures announced by the Prime Minister is to increase the number of reimbursed tests from four to six per month, in order to \"continue to encourage screening\".&nbsp;<strong>We remind you that these free tests are reserved for Portuguese tax residents.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This meeting of the Council of Ministers, which was the last before Christmas, was originally scheduled for Thursday, but the Prime Minister decided to bring it forward to Tuesday, after conferring with the President of the Republic and having informed and heard all the parties represented in Parliament.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"pt\" dir=\"ltr\">O <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/govpt?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@govpt<\/a> decidiu refor\u00e7ar o combate \u00e0 pandemia <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#COVID19<\/a> em <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Portugal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Portugal<\/a>de forma preventiva, apresentando hoje um conjunto de medidas que pretendem mitigar os potenciais riscos associados \u00e0 \u00e9poca de Natal e Ano Novo.<br \/>Conhe\u00e7as-as em <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/x7MtZhHtxg\">https:\/\/t.co\/x7MtZhHtxg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>- Rep\u00fablica Portuguesa (@govpt) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/govpt\/status\/1473353012483608589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A series of concrete measures for the vacations.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>On December 24, 25, 31 and January 1, it will be compulsory to present a PCR-negative test in addition to a health pass to enter restaurants, casinos or holiday parties. Public gatherings of more than 10 people and the consumption of alcoholic beverages are prohibited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the press conference following the Council of Ministers, the Prime Minister set out a series of recommendations for the Christmas period, in addition to the rules that had been determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ant\u00f3nio Costa called for gatherings to be limited \"as far as possible\" to the \"family nucleus\" and called for the wearing of masks.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Ant\u00f3nio Costa has just announced the early implementation of some measures originally planned for the first week of January and other measures have been announced\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Le nombre de contamin\u00e9 augmente tous les jours et pousse le gouvernement portugais \u00e0 avancer la semaine de confinement. \n\n#covid-19 #portugal #confinement","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3308,3307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economie-du-portugal","category-consommation-au-portugal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/gouvernement-portugais.jpg?fit=960%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vivreauportugalconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}