Germany removes Portugal from travel ‘red list’
Germany’s Robert Koch Institute has announced that from tomorrow (Wednesday) it will be lifting its ‘red list’ travel restrictions affecting Portugal, the United Kingdom, India, Russia, Nepal or Northern Ireland.
Portugal will be vaccinating children from end of August, says health minister
Health minister Marta Temido has said the government plans to vaccinate the under-18s from the end of August. Talking on TVI she stressed the increasing number of positive cases of
Vietnamese pigs ‘running wild in Lisbon’
Three Vietnamese pigs were seen ‘running wild’ in Lisbon’s recreational park Quinta das Conchas over the weekend. Animal rescue workers managed to catch one of them, but the other two
Body discovered in container from Greece, opened in Sintra
PJ police are investigating the circumstances in which a body ended up in a container full of rolls of plastic which was opened yesterday morning in Sintra. The container had
“After the (delightful) dolphin”: Algarve artist BJ Boulter returns with another message to “Listen to the Ocean”
After the Dolphin that delighted so many in those rose-tinted days pre-Covid (click here), Algarve artist BJ Boulter is back with a new addition to her series: “Listen to the
“Illegal parties won’t stop, no matter how high cases rise or how hard restrictions bite”
This is the message coming out of a report by SIC television news today, in which it describes the helter-skelter around the country involving authorities trying to bring a close
Hospital numbers leap to 613 as race is on to vaccinate as many Portuguese as humanly possible
The urgency cited by vaccine coordinator Henrique Gouveia e Melo couldn’t be better illustrated than by today’s Covid bulletin. In the space of just 24-hours, the number of people being
GNR agent filmed slapping young man faces ‘disciplinary process’
A slap-happy GNR agent caught on camera is now facing disciplinary action. His ignominious performance has been splashed all over national and social media, along with the soundtrack where another
Russiagate: new complaint against Lisbon city council demands reinstatement of ‘scapegoat’
Lisbon city council faces millions in potential fines following the ‘Russiagate scandal’ – the incident that highlights it has been breaking data protection rules for potentially vulnerable citizens for years
Young firefighter killed on busy motorway in tragic gesture of humanity
A young firefighter and mother was killed over the weekend in a tragic gesture of humanity. 31-year-old Catarina Pedro was returning home from the hospital with her two young children