Covid-19

Viana do Castelo Leixões Port Authority Contingency Plan
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Additional measures - 24 March

In accordance with the International Health Regulations 2005 (IHR)1, the port developed its plan, the Viana do Castelo Port Authority Contingency Plan, following the recommendations of the World Health Organisation (WHO), the Norms and Guidelines of the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) and the Port Health Authority, regarding infection with the new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) that evolves into the disease COVID-193.

The Viana do Castelo Port Authority's Contingency Plan thus results from the integration of the Port Health Authority's Contingency Plan, International Health and the Concessionaires' Contingency Plans.

 

The various plans follow different national and international guidelines in their preparation:

Guideline no. 006/2020 of 26/02/2020 - ISARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). Prevention, control and surveillance procedures in companies;

Guideline no. 005/2020 of 26/02/2020 - SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). Procedures for ports and travellers by sea;

Contingency plans fpr concessionaires;

Contingency plans for entities based in the port.

Order no. 3298-C/2020 of 13 March - Determines the ban on disembarkation and shore leave for passengers and crews of cruise ships in national ports.

Council of Ministers Resolution no. 10-B/2020 of 16 March - Restores, on an exceptional and temporary basis, the documentary control of persons at borders in the context of the epidemiological situation caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 disease

DGS - National Determination of 17 March

Decree of the President of the Republic no. 14-A/2020 of 18 March - Declares a state of emergency, based on the occurrence of a situation of public calamity

As a port infrastructure, the plan defines the procedures to be adopted when analysing notifications prior to the arrival of ships, in the event of a suspected case either on board or at the port facilities, as well as the communication and procedures for validated cases.

In addition to ships' crews and passengers, with regard to port workers, the document describes and defines the main stages of infection with the new SARS-CoV-22 Coronavirus, the causative agent of COVID-193, as well as the procedures to be adopted for workers with symptoms of this infection.

The Plan will be updated at any time, taking into account the evolution of the epidemiological picture of COVID-19.