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
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