"President João Lourenço called President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa to congratulate him and the Portuguese Government for the way the covid-19 pandemic has been managed and how the Portuguese people have respected the precautionary and confinement guidelines, expressing their solidarity ", reads in a note posted on the Portuguese Presidency of the Republic website.
In the same note released by the Portuguese head of state, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, it is stated that, "like the President of the Republic of Cape Verde, Jorge Carlos Fonseca, the President of the Republic of Angola had already sent a greeting message on Saturday by commemoration of the 25th of April ".
In view of the covid-19 pandemic, the President of the Portuguese Republic decreed a state of emergency, after hearing the Government and with the authorization of the parliament, which has been in force in Portugal since 19 March and was then renewed twice, until 2 May.
The covid-19 pandemic affected 193 countries and territories, with more than 204,000 deaths and more than 2.9 million people infected globally, according to a report by the AFP news agency.
In Portugal, 903 people died in a total of 23,864 confirmed to be infected, according to the Directorate-General for Health.
The disease is caused by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
