Among the 45 municipalities that will have a curfew from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. are Lisbon, the capital, Porto, the second-largest city, and Albufeira, a tourism hub in the southern region of Algarve.
Portugal’s government on Thursday announced that it would reintroduce nighttime curfews in municipalities where the coronavirus case rate has risen fastest, in another sign that the country is struggling to cope with the spread of the Delta variant. In the past 14 days, the average number of daily cases in the country has nearly doubled to over 1,600, according to a New York Times database, though they remain far below their January peak of over 12,000 per day.
