75% of businesses ‘can’t comply with rules of hygiene and safety’
Three out of every four of the nation’s businesses are finding it difficult to comply with all the new rules of hygiene and safety. This is the conclusion of a
Support measures for companies affected by Covid-19 have failed
A German entrepreneur living in the Algarve for 24 years has criticised the Portuguese government’s support measures for small and medium-sized companies affected by Covid-19. He stresses that economic strategies
GNR to put pensioners in contact with families via video calls
Altice Portugal and Huawei Portugal are donating tablets and free internet to GNR police so that officers can put thousands of pensioners in contact with their families via videocalls. The
Covid crisis: European Parliament votes for ‘recovery bonds’ to rebuild together
The European Parliament has taken a major step towards healing the rift over how the bloc should rebuild economies shattered by the pandemic. It voted today – “by large majority”
Zoomarine announces June 1 as provisional reopening date
Zoomarine marine theme park in Guia has announced that it will not be reopening before June due to the “climate of uncertainty around the evolution of the novel coronavirus”. In
Algarve Biomedical Centre to carry out 6,000 coronavirus tests at nursing homes
Around 6,000 coronavirus tests are due to be carried out at the region’s nursing homes in yet another initiative aimed at containing the coronavirus pandemic. The project, entitled ‘Covid +70’,
Seamstresses sew protective gear for Portimão health care workers
A group of local crochet artists and seamstresses have joined forces with a head nurse at Portimão Hospital to sew protective equipment, such as caps and shoe covers, for health
Please postpone, don’t cancel your trip
If circumstances were any different, the Algarve Tourism Board (RTA) would be celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. But in the midst of a global pandemic and the tourism sector
Algarve nurses sound alarm over lack of personal protective equipment
The national nurses’ union (SEP) is demanding action over the lack of conditions that nurses in the Algarve have to deal with on a daily basis, particularly in the midst
Drive-through testing centre opens near Algarve Stadium
Around 300 tests can be carried out every day at the new coronavirus drive-through testing centre which opened last weekend near Estádio do Algarve (Algarve Stadium) between Faro and Loulé.