Portugal, the green pass for public spaces is back
Green passes and masks are back in Portugal. The Lisbon government has decided this evening to reintroduce the green passport requirement for public spaces such as restaurants, bars, hotels and gyms, but also for discos, major events and access to retirement homes. Masks are again mandatory in enclosed public spaces and passengers arriving from abroad at airports will have to exhibit a negative test. The government, reports the website of the newspaper Diario de Noticias, has also foreseen a “week of containment of contacts” between 2 and 9 January, during which bars, discos, schools and kindergartens will be closed. Teleworking will also be mandatory. The new squeeze comes while in Portugal, despite the high vaccination rate, infections have returned to rise. Today, for the second consecutive day, the threshold of 3 thousand new cases was exceeded, after yesterday the highest number of infections since the end of July had been reached. Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa hailed the EMA’s green light for the Pfizer vaccine for children between 5 and 11 as “good news”.
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