Portugal’s Rt down to 0.91, incidence less than half ‘red line’ of 120
Today’s Covid bulletin shows Portugal’s Rt is down again, this time to 0.91 while incidence (at 51.8 cases per 100,000 of population) is less than half the government’s ‘red line’
Portugal’s vaccination roll-out has 5,379 ‘adverse reactions’
Portugal’s accelerating vaccination roll-out has so far flagged 5,379 adverse reactions: 2,997 of which were considered ‘not serious’, 2,328 of which were ‘serious (not fatal)’ and 34 of which were
Organs saved after tyre blows at 220 km/ h
Two GNR agents racing to deliver a kidney and a liver for transplant surgery in Porto had a lucky escape when a tyre blew on the vehicle they were driving
Portuguese court rules against mandatory 14-day quarantine under State of Calamity
A court in Sintra has ruled against mandatory quarantine for travellers under Portugal’s new State of Calamity. The court granted a writ of habeas corpus last week – immediately releasing
Albufeira’s Covid numbers spike as 45 immigrant agricultural workers test positive
The weekend’s Covid bulletins showed a sudden spike in the number of new cases in the Algarve – a situation due to an outbreak of infections in Albufeira among immigrant
Further calls for resignation of Portugal’s interior minister as Archbishop steps in to Odemira’s human slavery controversy
There have been further (blistering) calls for the resignation of Portugal’s minister for interior administration Eduardo Cabrita as now the Catholic Church has stepped into the brouhaha brought on by
Arouca’s recently inaugurated suspension bridge “could have detrimental impact on environment”
No sooner had it opened (click here) than environmentalists have been raising concerns that the stunning Arouca pedestrian suspension bridge “could have a detrimental impact on the environment”. SOS Rio
Embarrassment as Oeiras obelisk commemorating poets, artists and craftspeople shows sculptor cannot spell
Sculptor Júlio Quaresma is described by tabloid Correio da Manhã today as “the artist who has most benefited from public commissions”, apparently having charged over a million euros for his
Baby-without-face: family insist obstetrician must pay
Following the archiving of the criminal case against ‘Dr Horror’ taken out by the family of little Rodrigo (click here), a baby born without a face (or indeed part of
Portuguese doctors perform rare surgery to help 5-year-old open his mouth
Portuguese doctors have done what counterparts in France said couldn’t be done for another 10 years. Yet the operation was so necessary. Little Enzo, a Portuguese child living with his