Highest number of daily cases, no deaths
Saturday’s Covid bulletin confirms the current pattern: a high number of new cases being registered everyday (most of them in the Lisbon area), low numbers in hospital, no deaths to
Porto suffers second night of disturbances as English football fans run riot
Tonight’s Champions League game between Chelsea and Manchester City cannot come too soon for the city of Porto. Hundreds of fans who arrived ahead of the game (many without tickets)
Tourism “a long way from recovery”: hoteliers call for continued support
AHP, Portugal’s hoteliers association, says tourism remains “a very long way from recovery”, and “won’t reach the levels of 2019 before 2024”. As a result, business people are calling for
CR7 shows how it’s done – even in a penthouse apartment costing €7.5 million…
Football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo has been on the front-pages of popular tabloid Correio da Manhã this week over a ‘marquise’ (or covered veranda) constructed on the roof of the swanky
Bulls on the loose near Tomar
Five ‘very large’ bulls ‘escaped’ from an enclosed ‘field’ near a slaughterhouse in Tomar in the early hours of yesterday morning, and to date, three of them are still ‘missing’.
Covid-19 “probably already endemic in Portugal”, Infarmed meeting of experts hears
Today’s meeting of mathematicians, virologists and epidemiologists at Infarmed has heard that Covid-19 is “probably already endemic” within Portuguese society. Henrique Barros, licensed in medicine and one of the handful
Continente opens futuristic supermarket in Lisbon
Continente has opened a ‘supermarket’ with no cash tills, shopping trolleys, baskets (or queues) in Jardim do Arco do Cego, in Lisbon. It’s ‘an experiment’ using technology developed by Portuguese
Motorhome laws to change again…
Political parties PSD, CDS, PCP and Bloco de Esquerda are presenting proposals today to alter legislation in place since January banning motorhomes from overnight stays in unauthorised locations. Expresso reports
GNR agent loses hearing in left ear following AstraZeneca jab
A GNR agent attached to the traffic division in Viseu is undergoing specialist treatment in a hyperbaric chamber as a result of losing his hearing in his left ear shortly
More than half a million fail to respond to text messages for Covid vaccinations
More than half a million people registered with the SNS health authority in Portugal have failed to respond to text messages calling them for vaccinations against Covid-19. Explain reports, two