Vaccine coordinator says Portugal means to vaccinate between 95,000 – 100,000 per day
With only 8.6 million of the 11.3 million doses initially anticipated for Portugal during the period between April and June actually expected to arrive, vaccine coordinator Henrique Gouveia e Mel
€30,000 for botched penis job could lead to new law case
Judges in Lisbon have ruled that a well-known plastic surgeon should pay one of his clients €30,000 for the botched job performed on enlarging the man’s penis. As a result
Frontiers should say closed to avoid spread of variants, say experts
Following on from all the talk about a third wave in northern Europe, experts in Lisbon today are stressing the importance of maintaining Portugal’s frontiers ‘controlled’ as they are, only
Variants circulating in Portugal: South African – 24 cases; Brazilian- 16
With 80% of all cases in Portugal currently attributed to the British variant, the meeting in Lisbon this morning has heard that testing has discovered 24 cases of the South
Rt rate rising: Portugal unlikely to reach ideal of 60 cases per 100,000 by end March
With the Rt (transmission) rate rising since Portugal’s slow process of deconfinement began last Monday, experts at the meeting at Infarmed in Lisbon today have said it is still ‘too
DGS targets 40-60 year olds for vaccinations
DGS representative Andre Peralta Santos has been telling the meeting ongoing in Lisbon this morning (evaluating progress in the context of the pandemic) that authorities need to focus on getting
Experts and politicians meet in Lisbon to discuss evolution of pandemic in Portugal
Today will be one of ‘many statements’ regarding the evolution of the pandemic in Portugal as epidemiologists and other experts are meeting with politicians to discuss how the process of
Portugal’s State of Emergency likely to stay in place till May, says president
Portugal’s State of Emergency is likely to stay in place till May – in order to legitimise all the restrictions on everyday life and business activity that remain in place.
Portuguese pharmaceutical company ‘developing drug to treat Covid’ – but gives no details
Portugese pharmaceutical company Bluepharma, based in Coimbra, is in the news today for telling Lusa that it is developing a drug to treat Covid-19. But otherwise it gives barely any
Another slight increase in Portugal’s Covid hospital numbers
Exactly a week since Portugal started reopening slowly for business, Covid numbers generally are staying well within the ‘safety limits’. Today’s bulletin recorded another 16 deaths since yesterday and 248