Monchique has become the only municipality on mainland Portugal with fewer than 60 cases of Covid-19 per 100 thousand inhabitants. Monchique also became the only municipality in the Algarve that does not have a high or higher risk level. The municipality currently has an infection incidence of below 60 cases per one hundred thousand inhabitants (39) in the last 14 days, which only equalled or surpassed by a handful of municipalities, all of them in the autonomous region of the Azores.