Yearly Archives: 2021
Amovate Member donation to Charity
Amovate Member Donation to ACASA CLDS4G for children and families in poverty
Amovate member Marlene Scott whiled away the long and dark winter evenings over several years by doing jigsaws. Normally after completion they are broken up and put back in the box they came in. However, Marlene had a different idea which was to glue and mount them so that they could be displayed in the lower level of their villa.
As you will see in the video 44 jigsaws were displayed with many containing 3,000 pieces. Due to moving in the not too distant future the question was what to do with them when there would be no space available to display them in the property they will eventually move into. The decision was quite easy to make and donate them to CLDS4G where they could follow two options. One to give some to the children they look after and put a smile on their faces and the second to sell the remaining ones to raise funds.
The video was put together by CLDS4G along with some suitable music which was their idea to do to promote the jigsaws.
Therefore thanks to Aida Machado, Project Coordinator, and colleague Sandra Nunes for their efforts and dedication to this charity.
Portugal News
Please be advised that the latest newspapers have been delivered to the usual place at the Old School House.These papers are for Amovate Members ONLY.
Our thanks go to Ron and Pat Nutter, for their continued support in collecting the newspapers from Lagos.
Vaccination Programme
This information has been obtained from afpop (Portugal Foreign Residents Association)
Vaccine programme – Private health care: We have more information now for those people who are registered with the state healthcare system (SNS), but who use the private medical system for treatments and who may have ailments that should be taken into account when calling people for vaccinations.
The first thing for private healthcare patients to note, is that if they are registered with the SNS and have no health issues which will cause them to be in a higher risk category, they need to do nothing and will be called by the SNS according to their age. The criteria for higher risk categories in the vaccination phases are included below. This link will help you discover what phase you are currently included in for vaccinations. https://covid19estamoson.gov.
If you do have any of the conditions in the list below, you should contact your doctor and arrange a consultation. The doctor will then issue you with a document, in Portuguese, for you to take to the nearest Centro de Saúde for input into the SNS system. There is no need to ask for a doctor’s appointment at the Centro de Saúde as far as we are informed and if you do ask for a doctor’s appointment and are not ill, you will probably be refused. However, once your details are registered you may be asked to go to see the doctor, but that will be decided by them. I suggest that you explain when you call or email them for the appointment, that you have a report from your private doctor that needs to be updated in the SNS system for the purpose of early vaccination and then follow their instructions.
If your Centro de Saúde is not accepting visitors, then you should consult this website https://bicsp.min-saude.pt/pt/
When you visit the health centre, make sure you have your personal identification, social security number (if you have one) and fiscal number with you as well as your Cartão de Utente/Número de Utente.
Vaccination phases:
Phase 1. From February 2021
People over the age of 50 with the following health conditions:
- Cardiac insufficiency
- Coronary Illness
- Kidney disease
- COPD and chronic respiratory problems requiring mechanical ventilation and or using oxygen permanently.
Phase 2 from April 2021
People over the age of 65 who have not been vaccinated previously;
People between the ages of 50 and 64 years of age, who have at least one of the following illnesses
- Diabetes
- Cancer sufferers
- Chronic renal failure (GFR higher than > 60ml/min)
- Liver failure
- High blood pressure
- Obesity
- Other underlying illnesses that fall into this category not yet defined.
Phase 3 will commence once phase 2 is completed.
Registering for Cartão and Nº Utente:
If you are Resident and not yet registered with the SNS, you must do so in order to be included in the vaccination programme. You need to contact them and arrange an appointment, after which you will be issued a document called Cartão de Utente, that will have your State health care number, also known as Nº Utente or Nº SNS.
Non-residents: We are still waiting for responses to our questions about non-residents and what to do if they are here in Portugal and if they can be vaccinated here. There are people who came to their property in Portugal and can’t return to their home country, but at the moment we still have no information about whether there will be any facility for those people to be included in the Portuguese vaccination programme.
Lockdown from Midnight 14 January – UPDATE
UPDATE TO RESTRICTIONS:
Eleven new rules
Diário de Notícias has summed up the 11 most prominent new restrictions:
- You will no longer be able to leave your council area on weekends.
- All establishments will be forced to shut at 8pm on working days and 1pm on weekends, except food retailers, which can open until 5pm on weekends.
- No sales or collections at the door of any non-food business, such as clothing stores.
- The same restriction is in place for all drinks, including coffee, at restaurants, cafes and other food-based businesses.
- You won’t be able to eat any takeaway food you buy outside or near the business you bought it from.
- All restaurants within shopping centres will be shut, even for takeaway.
- Sales campaigns and promotions that encourage leaving the house will be banned.
- Hanging out in public leisure spaces such as parks will be banned but you can still pass through.
- Mayors will be asked to limit access to areas where a lot of people can gather, such as waterfronts, and signal that park benches, playgrounds and sports facilities are off limits.
- All workers who have to work in person will need proof from their employer. All businesses with more than 250 workers will have to send a list of such workers to the work conditions authority within 48 hours.
- Senior Universities (adult education for those over 50) and day centres must shut.
Of course, existing restrictions such as the civic duty to stay home and mandatory working from home continue. Reasons to leave the house are to buy essential goods and services, use public services, work (if telework is impossible), receive healthcare or veterinary care, assist vulnerable people, go to school or university, fulfil parental responsibilities, participate in the presidential elections, exercise, walk your pet/s and get some fresh air, which should be quick and near your house. The Prime Minister has repeatedly stressed that staying home is the “rule” and urged people not to hunt for exceptions.
With thanks to Safe Communities Portugal for their information.
WHAT REMAINS OPEN AND WHAT IS CLOSED FROM MIDNIGHT TONIGHT 14TH/15TH JANUARY 2021
Source Expresso
Recreational, leisure and fun activities, cultural and artistic activities, sports activities, Activities in open spaces, spaces and public roads, catering. Here is the complete list of everything that the Government ordered to close. From 15th January. And also (several) exceptions, which may be open – under strict security conditions – this time including hotels, drugstores, driving schools, among others. There are 52, these exceptions (see list)
New confinement. The list of everything that will close. And the 52 exceptions (includes hotels, driving schools and tutoring centres)
HERE’S WHAT WILL CLOSE
1. Recreational, leisure and fun activities:
• Discotheques, bars and dance or party halls;
• Circuses;
• Amusement parks and recreational and similar parks for children;
• Water parks and zoos, without prejudice to workers’ access for the purposes of animal care;
• Any indoor spaces for leisure sports;
• Other places or facilities similar to the previous ones.
2 – Cultural and artistic activities:
• Auditoriums, unless in the context of election campaign events in the context of the election of the President of the Republic, cinemas, theatres and concert halls;
COMPLETE LIST of closures and those remaining open here in English