Decisive meeting of Portugal’s Council of Ministers expected to announce further restrictions later today
This week’s meeting of the Council of Ministers is being billed as “expected to announce further restrictions” later today – principally to municipalities in the north where the spread of
Latest Covid measures deal new blow to hospitality sector
Portugal’s State of Calamity took on even further calamitous proportions last Thursday when the government announced new measures that effectively dropped a neutron bomb on the battered hospitality sector. With
France demands tests within ‘less than 24-hours’ of people returning from Portugal
France is demanding that non-vaccinated people entering the country from Portugal (or Spain) submit themselves to Covid tests within ‘less than 24 hours’. This is irrespective of the fact that
Infarmed suspends batch of Johnson & Johnson vaccine after “indeterminate number” of people faint in Mafra
Infarmed has suspended a batch of the Janssen (Johnson & Johnson) vaccine after an indeterminate number of people are reported to have fainted in a vaccination centre in Mafra after
Specialists present ‘new risk matrix’ to better define Portugal’s Covid situation
Despite the government insisting that it will keep with its current risk matrix – on which it bases many of its restrictions – specialists are not satisfied. They say the
Madeira starts vaccinating university students against Covid-19
Already focused on vaccinating 12-year-olds in time for the start of the next school year, health authorities in Madeira have begun vaccinating university students, giving them two vaccines to choose
Former Lisbon Appeal Court judges suspended ‘without pay’
Former Lisbon Appeal Court judges Luís Vaz das Neves and Orlando Nascimento – both described as “suspected for the fraudulent distribution of cases pertaining to Operation Lex” – have been
DGS health director, recovered from Covid and fully-jabbed, now in prophylactic isolation
Another soundbite to rattle those clinging to their sanity: DGS health director Graça Freitas, a woman who has been infected with Covid-19 and recovered, and has since been ‘fully vaccinated’,
Jailed for another two years: former banker and Socialist minister Armando Vara ‘pondering appeal’
Former banker and PS Soclialist minister (not to mention one-time mayor of Amadora) Armando Vara heard today that he faces another two years in jail, this time for money-laundering. He
Another green light for Portugal’s €16.6 billion funding bazooka
Today has seen yet more ‘anticipation’ over the arrival of the almost €17 billion in resilience and recovery funding from Brussels – the long-dubbed ‘bazooka’. Europe’s Economic and Financial Affairs