Author: Natasha Donn

More positive virus news today as in Lisbon experts warn the government about easing lockdown restrictions in Portugal too quickly. Today’s bulletin shows that another 15,157 people diagnosed as infected

Spain’s interior ministry has just announced that it will be prolonging border restrictions with Portugal until March 1. The current ‘limited flow’ of traffic across the borders was initially given

Portugal’s schools switched to distance learning on Monday in an atmosphere of controlled chaos.  Hundreds of children and teachers had no alternative but to return to the classrooms after the

Health authorities in Portugal have sent out 1,677 text messages calling on citizens to make appointments to be vaccinated. ‘Only’ 902 people have responded ‘Yes’ – which could mean that

Sónia Azevedo, the apparently perfectly healthy Porto cancer hospital health worker found dead in bed two days after receiving her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine on New Year’s Day,

The Portuguese government is launching a vaccine simulator for the over-50s to learn whether they are included in the current first phase of roll-out. The tool, available on the covid19.min-saude.pt/

Portugal has seen yet another fall in the number of new cases of Covid-19, and the number of deaths. Monday’s bulletin reports 198 deaths in the last 24-hour period (that’s

Portugal was “the best in the world in the first lockdown, the worst (in the world) at the outset of the third wave” and will be one of the countries

Hugo Quintas, 39, was condemned to life imprisonment in UK in 2006 for slitting the throat of his pregnant ex-girlfriend in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. The jail term was only to be

Today’s Covid bulletin has brought the usual mix of good and bad news – but there can be no denying that numbers are ‘coming down’, both in terms of daily