Surfboards, beach buckets and picnic baskets in tow, Portuguese flocked to the ocean in droves on Saturday for their first state-sanctioned beach weekend of the year.
People walk on Carcavelos beach, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Cascais, Portugal May 23, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
The nation of 10 million people has reported just 30,471 confirmed cases of the new coronavirus and 1,302 deaths, a small fraction of neighboring Spain’s 28,628 fatalities. As temperatures rose, people were itching to get back into the water. “Yesterday was already busy,” Jose Primo, a waiter at a beach restaurant in Carcavelos, said. “But today, my God! It’s chaos.”
A smartphone app due to be in operation from June 6 is supposed to help avoid crowding by warning which bathing spots are full. In the meantime people are anticipating crowds.
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