Portugal meets light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel and tourism relationship in the middle of winter
“We are in a phase of relief, but with prudence, Raquel Duarte, former secretary of health and current government advisor for the management of Covid-19 in Portugal.
With the transmissibility (Rt) below 1 and the pressure on hospitals more or less in the face of a lesser severity of the infection, to several controlled interviews, stating that “Portugal has already surpassed the peak of the wave” and must now enter a “calm period”, which, defending Raquel Duartewill allow you to “adjust measures to the lower risk” of infection.
“We are in the simplification phase with prudence, seeing as steps corresponding to these previous changes, constant in the resolution of new outbreaks, new aggravations”, as a state reference of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Since Monday, for example, for those arriving in Portugal from other European Union countries just present the EU Covid Digital Certificate valid, without the need for testing.
Under study, by the Directorate-General for Health, is also the possibility that people infected with SARS-CoV-2, but without symptoms of covid-19, can be exempted from isolation, as well as the use of masks is only mandatory in periods of greater risk.
The interview last week with CNN Portugal, still in the interview that it is expected that the director general of health will offer to be “being “sonal, seasonal and of general risk”, but everything will be coordinated at European level and coordinated by the evolution of the pandemic in the coming months. times.
“There is a movement, movement and movement by the European Center for Disease Control (CEDC), we are aligned with it”, assured de Freitas.
Greece in tourism restoration
Greece, one of the strongest competitors of the Portuguese sun in terms of tourism, also relieved those who visit the country.
From Monday until February 21, for those traveling from the EU, from countries that have joined the EU Covid Digital Certificate, including the United Kingdom and Cape Verde, just present the European document illness after travel up to 14 days before travel minus 14 days the first PCR test or pre-trip test.
The Greek government’s plan will arrive this year from the first tourists of the beginning of the summer on March 1st and expects to recover visits to pre-pandemic levels this year.
Something that is also being taken advantage of in France to try to speed up, namely the start of the winter season, very decided from last year and in the first weeks of the current season.
Soon, the Gallic government will also extend the need to just show the EU Covid Digital Certificate to those who arrive from countries outside the bloc, as is now the case with the British, who still need a necessary test for those who are totally negative.
The measure is, however, dependent on Covid numbers continuing to fall in France.
In Italy, the Digital Certificate is now also the essential document to circulate and the use of masks on the street is no longer mandatory as of this Friday.
In Spain, it is already this Thursday that the use of masks abroad is no longer mandatory, the government announced this Thursday, after a week’s Council of Ministers that have not yet been announced, are extraordinary news.
In a countdown to spring, with Portugal, for example, offering a kind of summer in the middle of winter, with sun and temperatures of 20 degrees Celsius, and with positive summer perspectives in terms of epidemic, the alerts remain for those who travel.
A new configuration variant, for example, of SARS-CoV-2 may arise at a moment and as any rules change quickly, with what can occur quarantines in the destinations.