People are seen in a shopping mall on the first day of the opening of malls after a country lockdown, amid the coronavirus disease pandemic, in Sintra, Portugal, Apr 19, 2021. LISBON: Three months after Joao Correia was forced to shut his cafe in one of Lisbon's shopping malls, he welcomed customers back on Monday , feeling both cautious and hopeful about the future.
Two weeks later, food terraces, museums, markets, fairs, small shops and gyms were allowed to open doors. On Monday, it was the turn of shopping centres like the Amoreiras mall in Lisbon, where Correia has worked for over three decades. Cinemas, high schools, universities and indoor areas of restaurants were also given the green light to reopen on Monday in most of Portugal.The Amoreiras has more than 200 stores and its director Fernando Oliveira said the impact of lockdown on businesses was"brutal".
No crisis in recent history has hit Portugal's tourism-dependent economy as hard as the pandemic, with GDP shrinking 7.6 per cent last year, its biggest slump since 1936.
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