It is not an April Fool: traffic lights will be installed at the entrance to Portuguese beaches to indicate the capacity to receive more bathers or not. PAN party deputy André Silva revealed this after leaving the meeting with Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa. It was also decided to allocate an area of 10 square meters per person. This solution aims to compensate for the lack of human resources in order to count the number of people on the beaches. Lisbob, the expatriate assistant, tells you what will change on the Portuguese beaches is summer.
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Portuguese beaches will have traffic lights at the entrance and an area of 10 square meters per person
This is serious news: this summer, Portuguese beaches will be equipped with traffic lights to indicate if they can accommodate more people, so that an average area of 10 square meters is guaranteed for each occupant. Thus the risk of contagion of the coronavirus is reduced.
The information was revealed on Thursday by the Portuguese deputy of the PAN party, André Silva, after leaving a meeting with Prime Minister António Costa, the latter received the representatives of the different political parties to discuss plans for the next phases of deconfinement .
Speaking to the press at the end of this meeting, André Silva said that the Portuguese government plans not to impose maximum capacity on the beaches and that the design of the measures and their deadline for entry into force are not still final. However, it is the installation of signaling lights that seem to be privileged.
The Portuguese MP also added that "there will be an average estimated area of 10 square meters per person on the beaches, and the installation of traffic lights to give people an indication that this beach is able to receive more people or not. " But "in a first phase, the goal is that there is discipline in the behavior of people", the measures being always "discussed internally".
This Friday, the newspaper Correio da Manhã adds that these measures are being studied by the Portuguese Minister for the Environment, João Pedro Matos Fernandes, who recently revealed this possibility to a group of mayors during a conference call. According to information published in this newspaper, the entrances to the beaches will have a traffic light system that will inform people whether the beach is full or not. It is a solution to respond to the lack of human resources in the security forces to control access to the beaches.
In addition, each umbrella will have a maximum limit of five people, not 6 as previously announced, and it will be mandatory to maintain a distance of at least three meters between each umbrella. In order to count the number of people on the beaches, the use of drones or surveillance cameras is also studied.
