Restaurants against Covid Digital Certificates at weekends hear ‘vaccinated transmit Delta variant as much as non-vaccinated’
Restaurants in Portugal are still balking at government ‘rules’ that force them to ask clients to show Covid Digital Certificates to take-up reservations inside at weekends and Bank Holidays. And
Portugal in 31st slot of ‘pandemic resilience ranking’
Portugal has come in 31st slot of a pandemic resilience ranking involving 53 countries. Bloomberg’s “The Best and Worst Places To Be as Reopening, Variants Collide” can be seen here,
Portugal’s children are “suddenly becoming ill all at once”
“The feeling we have is that, suddenly, the children are all becoming sick at the same time”. These are the words of pediatrician Joana Martins, one of the child-health experts
Portugal’s blood stocks running low – some only guaranteeing another four days of supply
Portugal’s blood stocks are running low – some only guaranteeing another four days of supply. According to the Portuguese blood institute, lowest reserves are those for type O-, A- and
Gulbenkian ‘art dealer’ sentenced to three-and-a-half years but may not spend much more time behind bars
Angela Gulbenkian, a self-styled art dealer connected by marriage to the super-rich Gulbenkian dynasty, heard this week that she may be freed from a British jail relatively soon. Extradited under
Parliamentary leader Ferro Rodrigues takes action after being labelled a pedophile
Parliamentary leader Ferro Rodrigues has taken action after being labelled a pedophile in a video clip uploaded onto YouTube. The clip has since been removed “for violating YouTube’s policy on
PM lays out next steps towards recovering Portugal’s freedoms, scotching predictions of ‘vaccine apartheid’
Prime minister António Costa has laid out the next steps towards recovering Portugal’s freedoms – scotching predictions of vaccine apartheid. Focus will be on encouraging people to take up the
Hospital admissions up as Lisbon/ north lead tally of new coronavirus infections
Another day, another bulletin: today’s showing the bulk of the 3,009 new infections localised in Lisbon (+1,156) and the north (+1,032). Good news is that recoveries are almost neck and
Former BES banker Ricardo Salgado with “preliminary signs of Alzheimer’s disease”
Just home from a holiday in Sardinia – where Portuguese holidaymakers describe him speaking French in order to divert their attentions – former BES banker Ricardo Salgado is once again
Consumer confidence drops following four months of steady growth
Consumer confidence in Portugal has suddenly dropped to levels below those recorded at the start of the pandemic. The confidence of businesses too has been seen to fall, though not