Going against the flow: the Algarve borough with the highest number of births…
…. Is Aljezur! One of the region’s smallest, most rural boroughs on the far west coast below the border with the Alentejo. Totally contradicting the ‘norm’ as registered by the
Covid deaths in Portugal’s most senior citizens set to increase in coming weeks
It’s the latest conundrum in a pandemic where everyone is still learning: while the number of new cases in Portugal seems to be falling, deaths in the oldest age group
Covid immunity tests to be rolled out for 5,000 old people’s home residents and staff
The government has announced it will be moving forwards with Covid immunity tests (‘serological’ testing) on 5,000 old people’s home residents and staff. In the context of an ongoing debate
Portugal accused of offering nurses “crackers while other countries give caviar”
Portugal has been accused of offering its nurses ‘crackers’ while other countries give caviar. It was simply another form of explaining the miserable salaries and conditions offered nationally, at a
Portugal’s old people’s homes hit by 53 outbreaks of Covid-19
Reinforcing the ‘reality’ that fully-vaccinated people can still contract, transmit and suffer from Covid-19 comes news today that 53 old people’s homes are currently facing new outbreaks – despite the
At least 11 dogs found dead in horror of abandoned ‘canine hotel’
At least 11 dogs have been found dead after the owner of ‘canine hotel’ Bosque dos Pimpões in Mafra left them without food, water or attention for “more than a
Marcelo “insists on vaccinating children”
President Marcelo is described today as “insisting on vaccinating children” against Covid-19. Portugal’s head of State has no medical training, and when he took to the presidency in 2016, he
US study “changes war against Covid” (and suggests Europe’s digital certificates are pointless…)
A new study coming out of the US State of Massachusetts has changed the war against Covid-19 by demonstrating that the viral load of a vaccinated person who ends up
Covid deaths registered in every Portuguese mainland region as numbers generally improve
Covid deaths have been registered in every region of the country today (Lisbon +3, central region +3, north +2, Alentejo +1 and Algarve +1), one very sadly a child under
Mafia ‘boss-of-bosses’ living with false Portuguese ID papers finally ‘run-to-ground’
Spanish police have announced the detention of one of the ‘principal leaders’ of the Calabrian mafia – a 60-year-old man who had been living on false Portuguese identity papers since