Function of SIRESP, Portugal’s emergency communications network, to go out to international tender from July
Portugal’s Ministry of Internal Administration has said that future contracts with private operators to guarantee the function of emergency communications network SIRESP will go out to international tender from July.
Michael Gove one of dozens of ‘casualties’ of Porto Champions League getaway
British government minister Michael Gove appears to have been one of the casualties resulting from the mass-influx of Brits into Porto for last weekend’s Champions League game. As newspapers here
Kiosks boycott newspapers
Various kiosks selling newspapers and magazines will be ‘boycotting titles’ from next week in protest to new charges being levied by distributor VASP. The first title to be taken off
Million euros set aside for support in purchase of bicycles “practically exhausted”
The demand for government support with the purchase of bicycles in Portugal has already ‘practically exhausted’ the million euros set aside for the purpose in the 2021 State Budget. Says
Covid vaccine self-scheduling platform opens to over-45s from this afternoon
Starting this afternoon (Friday), the DGS self-scheduling platform for Covid vaccinations will be opening to the over-45s – on the proviso that appointments will take place AFTER June 14. Vaccinations
Complaints as female climate protestors allegedly ‘forced by police to strip’
Portuguese climate activist group Climáximo has lodged a complaint against police after female protestors arrested at last month’s demonstration outside Lisbon airport were allegedly forced to strip at Olivais police
Portuguese microbiologist accuses British authorities of lying about cases of ‘Nepal mutation’ of Indian variant
As authorities and business entities in Portugal count the cost of the shock decision by the UK to pull the plug on quarantine-free travel, leading microbiologist João Paulo Gomes says
British father dies trying to save daughters from drowning
A 45-year-old British man died at the unsupervised beach of Calada, near Mafra, today after trying to help his two young daughters from being swept out to sea. Surfers paddled
Foreign affairs minister reacts to British torpedoing of Portugal’s summer
Minister for Foreign Affairs Augusto Santos Silva has reacted to the British government’s decision to remove Portugal from its ‘green list’ for quarantine free travel from next Tuesday, saying it
Portugal’s virus ‘case load’ accelerates to ‘highest level in almost two months’
The number of new positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 detected in Portugal has increased to the highest level in almost two months. Just as the government eases restrictions on the one