Portuguese judge rules former MP and convicted fraudster must be tried for murder
Portuguese judge Pedro Lucas has brought an end to years of legal ‘ducking and dodging’ by ruling that former PSD MP and convicted BPN fraudster Duarte Lima must face trial
Portugal ‘definitely moving out of State of Emergency’, says MP
Portugal is definitely moving out of a State of Emergency. This is the news this afternoon from Iniciative Liberal MP Cotrim Figueiredo after a telephone conversation with President Marcelo, who
Chega questions government on compensation paid by Portugal to family of murdered Ukrainian
André Ventura, the MP for Chega, has ‘questioned the government on compensation paid to the family of murdered Ukrainian Ihor Homeniuk’ (click here). His reasoning, explain reports, is that the
Almost 1200 ‘recoveries in Portugal in 24-hours’: Covid wards continue to thin out
Coinciding with the ‘positive results’ of today’s meeting of experts at Infarmed (see briefly news column), Tuesday’s bulletin brings further reason for cheer: in the last 24-hours almost 1,200 people
Indian variant has arrived in Portugal
The so-called Indian variant of SARS-CoV-2 which has brought health services in India to their knees has made it to Portugal. So far six cases have been detected in the
Older, wealthier and better educated: these are the Portuguese most receptive to Covid vaccine, hears meeting
Porto university specialist Henrique de Barros presented the Infarmed meeting this morning with the latest results of questionnaires involving thousands of Portuguese who gave an overall picture on how they
Over-60s in Portugal to be vaccinated by end May
All over-60s (who want to be vaccinated against Covid-19) should have received their shots by the end of May. This was the bottom-line message of vaccine coordinator vice-admiral Gouveia e
Risk of dying from Covid-19 in Portugal “now five times less”
The meeting with experts at Infarmed this morning has confirmed the situation in Portugal is clearly improving, with no sign of the national incidence rate getting anywhere close to the
Possible end to Portugal’s State of Emergency: President Marcelo to address nation tonight
President Marcelo is to address the nation tonight in the context that Portugal’s current State of Emergency is due to come to an end at midnight on Friday. The understanding
20th Infarmed meeting begins with at least three municipalities at risk of ‘being pushed backwards’ in Portugal’s slow deconfinement
The 20th meeting of experts, government ministers and President of the Republic Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is getting started at Infarmed’s headquarters in Lisbon this morning to analyse the epidemiological