Stricter virus measures loom as students return to Portugal's schools

FILE PHOTO: Students wearing protective face masks sit in a classroom at D. Pedro V High School, as grade 11 and 12 high school students return to schools under strict restrictions, during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lisbon, Portugal May 18, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo

LISBON (Reuters) - Stricter measures to curb the coronavirus outbreak will be introduced across Portugal from mid-September as students return to schools and many workers go back to the office, the government said on Thursday.

Cabinet Affairs Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva told a news conference the new measures would only be announced in early September but said the whole country would be put under the so-called state of contingency.