Lisbon: The Portuguese battle to load the Delta Covid-19 variant that surged has pushed it to put England on the red list for travel, accelerating vaccination in Lisbon and cancel school classes in the South Algarve region, the main tourist destination.
Portugal has in the past few days have reported the highest number of new Coronavirus cases since February.
Even though the hospital comfortably overcomes the reception of new viruses, officials said the increase of around 30% over the past week was a worrying trend.
On Monday, the number of coronavirus patients in the hospital beyond 500 for the first time since early April.
The Covid-19 Covelatif-19 case notification rate per 100,000 people, meanwhile, rose to 162, the highest which was officially recorded since the beginning of March.
Lisbon, the capital, is one of Portugal’s hot spots, with a level of case 438.
The city council said Monday will extend the opening hours of the vaccine center, with people above 50 permitted to enter without appointments.
It was last week, Lisbon doubled the number of Jab given for seven days, with more than 46,000.
The next goal is 65,000 per week.
Also, British travelers who were not vaccinated must be quarantined for two weeks after arriving in Portugal, the Portuguese government announced Monday.
The Delta variant is believed to take into account almost all Covid-19 new cases of England.
The arrival of England can quarante in their home or in a place set by the Portuguese health authority.
The arrival of Brazil, India and South Africa was under the same rule.
All that enters Portugal must show the Covid EU digital certificate or negative PCR test.
Health Authority in the South Portugal Algarve region, known as many beaches and sunny weather, canceling in-people classes for children up to 16 years in an effort to break the transmission chain in five cities, including the famous vacation spots of Albufeira and Faro.
Thousands of British tourists visit the Algarve earlier this month when the British government briefly allowed the trip easier to Portugal.
The Regional Health Authority Algarve said the class would stop Monday for at least 12 days.
It doesn’t say how many students will be affected.
The level of notification of the 14-day Albufeira case per 100,000 people stood in 583, he said.
Portugal is the worst devastated country in the world, in terms of weekly infections, in January.
But extended locking contains deployment.
Since the pandemic began, Portugal has officially recorded around 870,000 Covid-19 cases and around 17,000 deaths.