In terms of people’s safety, “the risk is minimum, it is extremely small, because there are no cases in Portugal”, Álvaro Mendonça told Lusa News Agency. At the end of December, after several cases in France, the Food and Veterinary Agency banned the sale of poultry in markets in some parts of Portugal, mainly in the centre, Alentejo and the Ria Formosa area of the Algarve, where there are more migrations of wild birds.