Portugal’s birthrate on track for “historic minimum”
For a country that was already suffering from a low birth rate Portugal is now on track for the worst year ‘in living memory’ for the appearance of new life.
Judges push for ‘greater punishments’ for those in public office who ‘hide their wealth’
In the wake of the Marquês bombshell last Friday, judges are reported to be renewing efforts to try and rein in the image that Portugal is filled with public servants
Portal available for people to ‘sign up for vaccines’ inches closer
The online portal for people to sign up for vaccines is inching closer but still not up and running. Talking at the meeting of experts at Infarmed today, vaccine coordinator
Portugal’s hospital numbers suggest ‘we’re on track for deconfinement stage 3 on Monday’
Portugal’s stellar hospital numbers with regard to Covid-19 mean that in spite of all the grumblings about Rt numbers and ‘risk matrixes’, the country as a whole is on track
ASAE shuts down seven café/ restaurants, warning: “we’ll be back”
After last week’s swoop on businesses that had only just reopened their doors (click here), ASAE inspectors were back enforcing ‘consumer protection and security’ on cafés and restaurants throughout Portugal,
Pfizer vaccine: prices spiral upwards
As controversy continues to dog the vaccine roll-out, Expresso reports today that the cost of the Pfizer/ BioTech vaccine (already the most expensive in use on the Portuguese market at
South African variant in Portugal: “We’re only seeing tip of iceberg”
Today’s meeting of experts at Infarmed has referred to 53 cases of the South African variant already confirmed in Portugal, and the fact that these are “only the tip of
Johnson&Johnson vac arrives in Portugal just as US regulators prepare to suspend it
Yesterday Portugal was being told the ‘gamechanger’ Johnson & Johnson vaccine was arriving on Wednesday. Today, in the US, regulators are calling for its suspension. The constant ‘swings and roundabouts’
Portugal has “very much lower Covid incidence level than majority of European countries”
Portugal has a “very much lower (Covid) incidence level than the majority of countries in Europe”. This has been one of the many positives coming out of this morning’s meeting
Secretary of State who ‘liberalised plantation of eucalyptus’ lands plum job with pulping association
Francisco Gomes da Silva, former secretary of State for Forests who facilitated the law liberalising the planting of eucalyptus trees has been made director-general of CELPA, the association that ‘brings