'Can't take any more': Lisbon's bar, restaurant workers protest amid COVID-19 rules

  • 11/14/2020
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LISBON (Reuters) - Paula Barroso’s bar in Lisbon has been shut for eight months and she already had to let some workers go due to the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Now she is scared she will not be able to make ends meets much longer.Barroso, 54, was one of hundreds of bar, restaurant and nightclub workers who protested in Lisbon on Saturday as a partial weekend lockdown kicked in across most of the country. “We are in mourning and we have to survive,” Barroso said as she stood among a crowd calling on authorities to allow them to work. “The government does not support us and we cannot die, we cannot stay in the dark.” Bars and nightclubs have been closed since March and although restaurants have since reopened, owners and workers fear that the new restrictions to fight the virus could kill the sector.

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