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De acordo com a Direção Geral de Saúde (DGS) e a Organização Mundial de Saúde (OMS), não há evidência de que os animais domésticos, como cães e gatos, sejam infectados, pelo que não podem transmitir ...

A nova página, integrada no website oficial da autarquia lacobrigense, pretende ser um centro de informação para munícipes com áreas que vão desde recomendações de saúde, medidas de prevenção e comba...

Num esforço conjunto e contínuo para melhorar as condições dos cidadãos nesta época de pandemia, a Câmara Municipal de Lagos continua empenhada em criar as melhores condições de luta e despiste do ví...

O passeio da frente ribeirinha da Avenida dos Descobrimentos (calçada do lado nascente, junto à ribeira), assim como todas as praias do concelho, respetivas frentes de mar e parques de estacionamento...

Já a pensar no período pós surto da COVID-19 e com a expetativa de que o quotidiano retome a sua dinâmica habitual, a Câmara Municipal de Lagos aprovou na sua última reunião ordinária - realizada na ...

Os serviços sociais da Câmara Municipal de Lagos, em estreita colaboração com o Instituto Fonte de Vida, a Escola Secundária Júlio Dantas e o Clube de Vela de Lagos, irão implementar, a partir desta ...

Today government officials carried out a visit to the region in order to recognize the work being carried out by the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC) to contain the COVID-19 pandemic. A protocol was also signed to formalize various actions in the elderly care homes in the region. Despite the current state of Emergency, Manuel Heitor, […]

Diogo Gonçalves, a 21-year-old from Albufeira, was found dead last Thursday. The man's head was found at Pego do Inferno, in Tavira, by water by a French couple whilst hiking.

The new COVID-19 screening centre set up beside the Portimão Arena is set to open "in principle next Friday", Mayor Isilda Gomes told press. The testing centre, which is to be operated in cooperation with the Algarve Biomedical Center (ABC), similarly to the centre that is already in operation at the Algarve Stadium in Faro, […]

The Government has determined that all immigrants with pending residence permit applications with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) are for now to be given access to the same rights as all other citizens, including social benefits. The new measure also covers asylum-seekers.

Prime-Minister António Costa said today that, with or without a state of emergency and despite some "success in lowering the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic", it will be necessary to prolong the preventative measures that have been adopted to date.

The European Commission has announced that it is choosing a telecoms operator in each Member State to ‘gather citizens data anonymously through the tracking of mobile phones during the pandemic’. The idea, says State news agency Lusa, is to “analyse mobility at a time of confinement”. The word ‘spying’ is never used – but it […]

Nicolás Maduro, president of Venezuela, has accused a Portuguese cruiseship of an act of terrorism and piracy. This new diplomatic rift follows the sinking of a Venezuelan coast guard boat on Monday. According to reports from the Venezuelan ministry of defence, the 184-metre long RCGS Resolute crashed into the patrol boat with 44 men onboard […]

Faced with unprecedented circumstances, schools, students and parents are now having to assume and cope with a completely new way of schooling. Students are self-isolating at home with their families and, whilst education must continue, it is also very important to ensure both social contact and interaction with friends and peers. This is the firm […]

The Lagos Live Science Centre (Centro de Ciência Viva de Lagos) is helping produce protective face shields for health professionals in the Algarve, having recently donated 60 to health centres in Lagos and 20 to Portimão Hospital. The science centre started producing the support structures for the face shields on March 21, in collaboration with […]

President Marcelo has tweaked his decree on the State of Emergency to “extend the possibilities of the government to restrict people’s movements even further”. As we went to press on Wednesday, the continuation of Portugal’s situation of lockdown was a certainty. The head of State had been in a flurry of meetings with experts, all […]