status, public information and exceptional measures to help business. the ministry of health provides a web page with information for the public about different areas, including brochures, orientation and guidance for different activity sectors, how to deal with self-isolation, and quarantine games for children. as an example there are several portuguese food recipes with canned food. hospitals for covid-19 the following is a list of the front line covid-19 hospitals. region hospital adults pediatric northern braga santo antónio são joão pedro hispano central chu coimbra uls guarda lisbon andtagus valley santa maria curry cabral dona estefânia algarve faro madeira dr. nélio mendonça azores santo espírito (terceira) fiscal policy response in 2020, portugal allocated €600 million per month to financial support for workers furloughed by their employers. roughly €1.3 billion were allocated to incentivize a gradual reopening and return to economic activity, and €13 billion in lines of credit were extended to small and mid-size businesses. tax and social security contribution deferrals totaling €7.9 billion for companies and employees were enacted. the apoiar program was introduced, extending €.8 billion in loans to small businesses. as of march 12, an additional €296 million were allocated to improving the capacity of the national health system. the 2021 budget includes extension of support for businesses, including assistance with non-housing rents for some firms, with subsidies of up to 50% of rent being granted. large companies in sectors of the economy hurt by the pandemic, namely the tourism sector, received €750 billion in loans and subsidies. on august 2, 2021, support available for businesses forced to remain closed via the apoiar program was increased, with small businesses whose income declined by more than 50% being eligible for €41,250 in financial support. moreover, a moratorium on repayment of business loans lasting six months was enacted, and subsequently extended until september 2021. in april, portugal presented the recovery and resiliency plan to the european commission, including €14 billion in grants and €2.7 billion in loans. the european commission approved portugal's recovery and resilience plan, adopting a positive assessment of the plan. as of may, the portuguese government has announced a €6 billion plan to reactivate the tourism industry. return to normal on april 30, 2020, the portuguese ministers' council approved a plan to start releasing the country from covid-19 containment measures and cancel the state of emergency. the plan was divided in three stages, beginning respectively on 4 may, 24 may and 1 june 2020. the first stage eased some restrictions, such as: barbers and hair salons are open but with health restrictions, mask usage and only by appointment small shops with less than 200m2 can open but cannot have more than 5 customers/100m2 and all must use masks people can use public transportation if they are not able to work remotely. transport vehicles can only be filled to two thirds capacity and all passengers must use a mask all public services are open to everyone with an appointment and is an obligation the use of a mask physical exercise can only be done outdoors or at home libraries and archives are open groups of more than 10 people are not allowed impact due to movement restrictions imposed by the state of emergency started in march 18 and the adoption of government guidelines on social distancing by the portuguese people, otherwise highly populated streets and destinations in cities like lisbon and porto were completely empty. lgbt+ youth a study by the faculdade de psicologia e de ciências da educação da universidade do porto (fpceup) aimed at "assessing the psychological health and social support networks" of lgbt+ young people who live with their parental figures during the covid-19 pandemic concluded, based on a survey of 632 young lgbt+ people, who most did not feel comfortable in their families during confinement. of the people surveyed, 59% said they were uncomfortable in the family and three out of 10 felt "quite uncomfortable" living at home with parents during social confinement. in addition, 35% of young people felt "suffocated" because they were unable to express their identity within the family, whereas in the case of young people whose family was aware of their identity, 35% stated that they "deal badly or very badly" thereby. this study, with a longitudinal and intercultural character, also concluded that six out of 10 participants considered that the pandemic had "greatly" affected their lives. with regard to social support networks, half of the young people admitted to feeling isolated from their friends and 35% "extremely isolated" from their partners. "as for the present study, if for some young people the covid-19 pandemic had no impact on their social support networks, an important proportion felt quite isolated from their friends", says fpceup. vaccination vaccine donations to former colonies portugal announced that it would distribute 5% of its vaccine doses to a group of former colonies in africa and to the nation of east timor. portugal is entitled to 35 million vaccine doses in 2021. donating 5% of its stock means the country would give 1.75 million doses of the covid-19 vaccine to angola, mozambique, cape verde, guinea bissau, equatorial guinea, são tomé and príncipe, and east timor. so far, they have committed to donate 1 million doses starting in july 2021. statistics this section is an excerpt from statistics of the covid-19 pandemic in portugal § statistics. covid-19 summary (06/12/2021) total confirmed cases 1,169,003 (+2,216) total confirmed deaths 18,551 (+14) active cases 62,157 (+794) under surveillance 77,283 (+1,204) recovered 1,088,295 (+1,408) currently admitted to hospital 948 (+37) currently admitted to icu 135 (+1) cases per 100 000 (national/continental) 410.4 / 413.9 r(t) (national/continental) 1.1 / 1.11 vaccine summary (14/11/2021) people with at least one vaccine dose 9 053 901 (87%) people completely vaccinated 8 925 907 (86%) doses received 23 017 910 doses distributed 17 211 348 vaccination by age group at least one vaccine dose complete vaccination 0–17 562 026 (90%) 542 632 (87%) 18–24 729 806 (93%) 709 115 (91%) 25–49 3 203 605 (96%) 3 142 142 (94%) 50–64 2 171 685 (100%) 2 153 029 (99%) 65–79 1 689 071 (100%) 1 683 474 (100%) ⩾80 697 198 (100%) 695 354 (100%) the following graphs show the evolution of the pandemic starting from 2 march 2020, the day the first cases were confirmed in the country. cumulative cases nationwide daily cases show daily tests show daily cases show daily deaths | total confirmed cases by age and gender the following chart displays the proportion of total cases by age and gender on august 20, 2021. total confirmed deaths severe cases total confirmed deaths by age and gender the following chart displays the proportion of total deaths by age and gender on december 6, 2021. confirmed cases and deaths, by region covid-19 cases in portugal, by region () date (dgs report) new confirmed cases confirmed cases hospitaladmitted cases deaths recoveries refs. north lisbon andtagus valley center alentejo algarve madeira azores foreigners new total stable icu new total new total 2020-03-02 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-03 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-04 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-05 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-06 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 13 13 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-07 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 21 21 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-08 8 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 30 30 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-09 4 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 9 39 38 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-10 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 41 40 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-11 9 6 2 0 1 0 0 0 18 59 57 0 0 0 0 0 2020-03-12 8 5 3 0 2 0 0 1 19 78 107 0 0 0 1 1 2020-03-13 9 24 1 0 1 0 0 0 34 112 107 0 0 0 0 1 2020-03-14 24 27 2 0 1 0 0 1 57 169 114 10 0 0 0 1 2020-03-15 26 43 2 0 3 0 1 0 76 245 139 9 0 0 1 2 2020-03-16 35 26 21 0 3 0 0 1 86 331 139 18 1 1 1 3 2020-03-17 58 38 20 0 1 0 0 1 117 448 206 17 0 1 0 3 2020-03-18 93 63 23 2 7 1 2 3 194 642 89 20 1 2 0 3 2020-03-19 92 35 12 0 4 0 0 0 143 785 89 20 1 3 0 3 2020-03-20 125 83 20 0 4 0 0 0 235 1,020 126 26 3 6 2 5 2020-03-21 138 87 31 1 2 4 0 0 260 1,280 156 35 6 12 0 5 2020-03-22 181 86 43 2 4 2 1 1 320 1,600 169 41 2 14 0 5 2020-03-23 182 203 58 0 7 2 7 1 460 2,060 201 47 9 23 9 14 2020-03-24 123 115 55 1 4 3 1 0 302 2,362 203 48 10 33 8 22 2020-03-25 387 140 72 6 16 4 5 3 633 2,995 276 61 10 43 0 22 2020-03-26 341 90 70 8 27 (-1) 7 7 549 3,544 191 61 17 60 21 43 2020-03-27 585 28 85 10 10 6 0 0 724 4,268 354 71 16 76 0 43 2020-03-28 592 177 127 4 7 10 6 (-21) 902 5,170 418 89 24 100 0 43 2020-03-29 515 191 72 7 2 12 3 — 792 5,962 486 136 19 119 0 43 2020-03-30 246 99 75 4 8 1 8 — 446 6,408 571 164 21 140 0 43 2020-03-31 651 222 127 5 21 2 8 — 1,035 7,443 627 188 20 160 0 43 2020-04-01 458 199 132 4 14 2 3 — 808 8,251 726 230 27 187 0 43 2020-04-02 428 209 116 5 18 0 5 — 783 9,034 1,042 240 22 209 25 68 2020-04-03 561 140 125 3 15 2 6 — 852 9,886 1,058 245 37 246 0 68 2020-04-04 381 166 86 1 3 1 0 — 638 10,524 1,075 251 20 266 7 75 2020-04-05 250 391 70 19 19 1 4 — 754 11,278 1,084 267 29 295 0 75 2020-04-06 176 166 79 2 28 0 1 — 452 11,730 1,099 270 16 311 65 140 2020-04-07 346 115 245 1 5 0 0 — 712 12,442 1,180 271 34 345 44 184 2020-04-08 334 239 99 8 17 0 2 — 699 13,141 1,211 245 35 380 12 196 2020-04-09 716 27 40 1 9 1 21 — 815 13,956 1,173 241 29 409 9 205 2020-04-10 795 370 292 31 19 6 3 — 1,516 15,472 1,179 226 26 435 28 233 2020-04-11 367 13 130 5 0 0 0 — 515 15,987 1,175 233 35 470 33 266 2020-04-12 483 7 99 9 0 0 0 — 598 16,585 1,177 228 34 504 11 277 2020-04-13 237 55 51 1 5 0 0 — 349 16,934 1,187 188 31 535 0 277 2020-04-14 318 98 72 15 5 0 6 — 514 17,448 1,227 218 32 567 70 347 2020-04-15 449 108 80 0 5 0 0 — 643 18,091 1,200 208 32 599 36 383 2020-04-16 486 135 127 1 5 (-6) 2 — 750 18,841 1,302 229 30 629 110 493 2020-04-17 87 65 22 2 5 0 0 — 181 19,022 1,284 222 28 657 26 519 2020-04-18 438 136 85 0 1 1 2 — 663 19,685 1,253 228 30 687 91 610 2020-04-19 386 62 60 0 4 7 2 — 521 20,206 1,243 224 27 714 0 610 2020-04-20 395 209 29 3 1 19 1 — 657 20,863 1,208 215 21 735 0 610 2020-04-21 263 187 47 12 2 5 0 — 516 21,379 1,172 213 27 762 307 917 2020-04-22 344 197 54 3 3 0 2 — 603 21,982 1,146 207 23 785 226