Extreme right linked to pandemic negationists in reports on Portugal’s 2020 figures for crime
The 2020 RASI (Report on Internal Security) has highlighted how dangerous it has suddenly become to interpret real situations from Portuguese headlines. Yesterday we had the message from interior minister
New cases up – but numbers in Portuguese hospitals continue to fall
Today’s Covid bulletin is being described as showing ‘the highest number of new cases for the last two weeks’. But it could also be a reflection of the ‘weekend effect’,
Portugal’s mass Covid vaccination plan to see citizens ‘requesting inoculations’ online
Portugal’s mass vaccination plan against Covid-19 is to see citizens ‘self-scheduling’ online. With Phase One of the programme close to its end (meaning all the over-80s and priority groups will
Portugal’s 7100 homeless to be included in vaccination priorities
Associations supporting Portugal’s homeless population – almost two thirds of which live in the streets of Lisbon and Porto – heard this week that health authorities will be ensuring early
Remote working in Portugal ‘obligatory to the end of the year’
President Marcelo has rubber-stamped the government’s diploma making remote working from home in Portugal obligatory to the end of the year. Says a note on the president’s official site, “in
Inquiry opens into 21-year-old prisoner who set light to mattress and died in hospital
An inquiry has been opened into the circumstances that led a 21-year-old prisoner in Braga jail to set light to his mattress, dying later in hospital. Explain reports, “the causes
2020 saw “record lows” when it came to figures for crime in Portugal
In another of his rather bizarre announcements, minister for interior administration Eduardo Cabrita has ‘revealed’ that figures for crime in Portugal fell to their lowest levels since RASI (the annual
11-year-old ‘seriously injured’ in explosion in Viana do Castelo
An 11-year-old boy has been rushed to hospital today following an explosion in a house in Santa Marta de Portuzelo, Viana do Castelo. A source for the Viana do Castelo
Portugal registers another 1,654 ‘recoveries’ as new cases total just 388
It has been another ‘excellent day’ for numbers as Portugal inches closer to the moment when cafés and restaurants can reopen to tables outside. The countdown to April 5 is
Portugal and Iceland ‘only European countries not vaccinating people who have had Covid and recovered’
Portugal and Iceland are the only countries in Europe currently holding back on vaccinating people who have contracted Covid-19 and recovered. A report published by the ECDC (European Centre for