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Indoor dining, shopping centres and more schooling open tomorrow // Portimão and three other councils back in quasi-lockdown

Indoor dining, shopping centres and more schooling open tomorrow // Portimão and three other councils back in quasi-lockdown

Portuguese news in English on Sunday, April 18, 2021.

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Apr 18, 2021
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Case numbers are back on the increase but it’s only ever so slight at this point. The average number of new cases per day fell below 500 on March 23 and stayed that way until April 11, even getting down as low as 408 at one stage. Since April 8 it’s been climbing slowly but steadily, up to almost 550 as of today. The R number from April 8 …

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