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Dando continuidade às estratégias de prevenção da disseminação da COVID-19 na comunidade, o Serviço Municipal de Proteção Civil e o Serviço de Segurança Higiene no Trabalho da autarquia lacobrigense ...

Começa hoje, 7 de maio, a campanha anual de Vacinação Antirrábica, de Identificação Eletrónica e de Controlo de outras Zoonoses (CVARIE), em Lagos, este ano apenas para cães. Os interessados poderão,...

A associação cultural, um das mais antigas do concelho, celebrou o seu 90º aniversário no passado dia 1 de maio. Para comemorar esta efeméride, o Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Lagos, Hugo Pereira...

O Espaço Cidadão da Câmara Municipal de Lagos está a colaborar na campanha de vacinação contra a COVID-19 disponibilizando um serviço de agendamento para os cidadãos maiores de 65 anos, que são os de...

O Presidente da Câmara Municipal de Lagos recebeu hoje os primeiros agentes que integraram o Serviço de Polícia Municipal e iniciam o exercício de funções neste novo órgão de polícia administrativa. ...

A 47ª edição da Volta ao Algarve está prestes a ir para a estrada, com alguns dos grandes nomes do ciclismo mundial. A prova vai disputar-se entre os dias 5 e 9 de maio e conta com 25 equipas inscrit...

It has been announced that from 17th May, Portugal will be on the Englands' Green List for travel.  The transport secretary said the UK's approach was "necessarily cautious", but the travel industry has said it is too cautious and called it a reopening of air travel "in name only".

Today, May 7th, the municipality of Portimão will go directly to phase 4 of the deconfinement plan, due to "the collective effort of the community, which has allowed the incidence of coronavirus to drastically decrease in the municipality" in the last 14 days.

Gonçalo Silva, a former student at the Hotel and Tourism School of Portimão, has been distinguished by the Le Cordon Bleu School in Paris, with the Major Promotion diploma, awarded to the best student of the course.

According to yesterdays' DGS epidemiological bulletin, the incidence of Covid-19 per 100 thousand inhabitants and the R (t), the transmissibility index, continue to fall in Portugal.

All CVC's, or dedicated Covid Vaccination Centres in the Algarve are now functioning. Here is a list of the centres and their location. 

A 53-year-old woman had to be rescued after becoming trapped in the thick sludge of the Arade estuary near Portimão on Friday. Maritime police and firefighters extricated the woman who had to be admitted to hospital, writes Correio da Manhã. The post 53-year-old woman hospitalised after becoming trapped in Arade sludge near Portimão appeared first […]

With Portugal’s vaccination programme now moving swiftly through the 60-69 year age-grouping, the self-scheduling platform (click here) is now open to anyone over the age of 60. The plan is for all 60-year-olds to have been vaccinated by the end of May. Meantime police agents, firefighters and parish councils having been dispatch to locate any […]

A unique initiative involving scientists, Algarve fishermen, local authorities and Portugal’s  Fundação Oceano Azul (Ocean Blue Foundation) has come up with a proposal to protect the ‘largest shallow water reef in continental Portugal” – home to almost 900 species, 12 of them previously undocumented. The reef runs close to the Algarve coastline from the Farol […]

Set your body and soul soaring with Kabinga Yoga Retreat. A handful of giggling women dangle in various states of asana from brightly coloured silks. A sight like this is not uncommon. In fact, inverted bodies are a typical feature at Kabinga Yoga Retreat. “We know yoga can be quite serious, but we try to […]

The Portuguese government’s ‘moment of glory’ during the all-too-brief six month presidency of the Council of the European Union was the EU Social Summit which took place in Porto over the last two days. But what did the summit actually achieve? Prime minister António Costa has told reporters: “We achieved an historic milestone. For the […]