Author: Natasha Donn

Raquel Duarte of Porto university’s institute of public health and the Abel Salazar institute of biomedical sciences has told the meeting at Infarmed that what needs to be mapped out

Young people in Portugal are showing “very high levels” of expectation that life is a long way from returning to normal – and this is worrying experts like Carla Nunes,

Henrique Barros, one of the panel of experts advising the government through the pandemic, has been talking at the Infarmed meeting this afternoon on testing, and how it will need

João Paulo Gomes of INSA, public health institute Dr Ricardo Jorge, has warned that the likelihood of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is highest from countries where the level

Concluding her intervention in the ongoing meeting at Infarmed headquarters in Lisbon, Fátima Ventura has said contracts with suppliers “provide for the provision of vaccines adapted to Covid-19 variants”. Meantime

Fátima Ventura, director of Infarmed’s Scientific Evaluation Unit, has broached the subject of booster shots for 12-year-olds and “an extension” of Portugal’s vaccination campaign to the over-5s. This is the

Balthazar Nunes, one of the experts from INSA who has been advising the government throughout the pandemic, reports that studies published show vaccine effectiveness falls against infection after 12 to

In general, all political parties are in favour of releasing society from the bulk of current restrictions. João Cotrim de Figueiredo, MP for IL (Iniciativa Liberal) however has told Expresso

Continuing his intervention at the meeting at Infarmed today, Baltazar Nunes has raised the ‘elephant in the room’: will vaccines continue to offer the protection they do at the outset

Baltazar Nunes of INSA, public health institute Dr Ricardo Jorge, has been telling the Infarmed meeting ongoing in Lisbon this afternoon that the respite in the pandemic is something being