Unvaccinated make up bulk of Portugal’s current Covid hospital numbers
Pedro Pinto Leite, reporting to the meeting at Infarmed this afternoon, has stated that for every five people in Covid wards, four are unvaccinated. When it comes to ICUs (intensive
Portugal “clearly at end of a pandemic phase”
The first intervention this afternoon at the Infarmed meeting of experts expected to call for a radical reopening of society (click here) has heard from DGS’ Pedro Pinto Leite who
Killer goat update: victim may have died due to hospital administering ‘wrong blood’
The tragic story of a fatal attack by a goat in Abrantes (click here) has taken even further twists and turns today. With the goat now successfully removed from
Young Portuguese scientist patents t-shirt to help women through menopause
A t-shirt made of material that helps regulate body temperature, and quite a bit else, has been patented, approved by Infarmed and is ready to be launched onto the market.
Women in Portugal receive 78% of salary of male counterparts
Despite doing generally better at school and in education generally than male counterparts, once Portuguese young women enter the job market, the ‘situation changes’. They find it more difficult to
Horror in Azores as woman hacked to death with machete
A 39-year-old man is in police custody today after he allegedly hacked a woman to death in her car, “believing the victim used techniques of witchcraft to prejudice him”. A
Internationally-acclaimed Portuguese doctor speaks out against Covid vaccinations in children
Internationally-acclaimed doctor and former presidential candidate Fernando Nobre has spoken out against Portugal’s decision to vaccinate children over the ages of 12 – warning that authorities are unlikely to stop
Over a million pupils start new school year in masks
With fingers tightly crossed, Portugal returns to school this week: roughly 1.2 million children and teens will be filing back into the classroom, a purported 85% of 12-17 years olds
Chega MP set to appeal court order for an apology
President of Chega, André Ventura, is set to appeal the latest court ruling that says he must indeed apologise to a family he branded publicly as ‘bandits’. This is a
Portugal officially becomes world’s most vaccinated country against Covid-19
Well on target to have 85% of citizens fully-vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of the month, Portugal is already the most vaccinated country in the world. Our World in