President dubs 2021 year for “sustainable social recovery”
Addressing the country ahead of the 15th declaration of a State of Emergency, Portugal’s president Marcelo said: “If 2020 was the year of struggle for life and health, 2021 will
General Medical Council boss warns European disunion is damaging confidence in vaccines
Miguel Guimarães, president of Portugal’s General Medical Council (Ordem dos Médicos), has warned today that European disunion is damaging people’s confidence in vaccines against Covid-19. At a time when this
Four children hurt as telecoms post crashes down outside school
Four primary school children were hurt today – one of them seriously – after a wooden telecommunications post crashed down on top of them as they stood outside a school
Portugal’s Rt increases though transmission still well within ‘red lines’
Wednesday’s Covid bulletin like almost every other Wednesday before it shows ‘cases’ catching up from the dip in testing over weekends. Thus today’s numbers, reflecting the count for Tuesday, shows
UK/Portugal flight schedules back on!
Flights to and from the UK appear to be back from Friday as the ‘travel ban’ imposed by Portugal is due to expire tomorrow (April 15). Various airlines have updated
Agriculture ministry to support ‘lightning strike’ shepherd
Dário Lima, the shepherd from Arcos de Valdevez who lost 68 goats in a freak lightning strike last week (click here) is being supported through IFAP, the institute of finance
President Marcelo to address nation as new State of Emergency approved to end April
President Marcelo will be addressing the nation again this evening after parliament has approved yet another two-week period of State of Emergency. The new stint in which the government has
Judges slam Portuguese for being too personal as petition to oust magistrate tops 190,500
As the public petition for the removal of Judge Ivo Rosa from Portugal’s magistrature (click here) hits over 190,500 signatures, ASJ, the judges’ association, has criticised people for being too
Quarter of Covid deaths ‘weren’t Covid deaths at all’, says study
It’s analysis that has come out of UK in the last 24-hours (click here), but the data from the Office of National Statistics will almost certainly mirror the situation in
Suspension of Portugal’s ‘universities for seniors’ has caused “anxiety and sadness’
The suspension and closure since January of classes in universities for seniors has provoked ‘anxiety and sadness’ in scores of elderly people, Renata Benavente of the Order of Portuguese Psychologists