President to address country on terms of Portugal’s renewed State of Emergency
President Marcelo will be addressing the country tonight on the 8pm news to lay out the terms of Portugal’s renewed State of Emergency. With MPs voting on the decree in
Raid on ‘illegal restaurant’ sees diners in Portugal dive into flooded storm drain
A police raid on a restaurant in Camarate (near Lisbon) saw clients try to make their escape by diving down a flooded storm drain. The idea, say reports, was to
Portugal’s pandemic deficit is ‘enormous’ – but still smaller than deficits of Sócrates government
Portugal’s public deficit for the first year of the pandemic exceeded €10.3 billion – but even so is less than the last two deficits of the final government of José
German military doctors assess Portugal’s imminent call for international aid
German military doctors arrived in Lisbon yesterday to assess the situation in the capitals overrun hospitals ahead of an official call for international aid, described today as imminent. Health minister
Algarve removal companies battle ‘bitter pill of Brexit’
Customers relocating to Portugal face massive new charges. Algarve removal companies have had a lot more than the pandemic to deal with since January 1. The minute they came back
Mixed messaging as Portugal’s rank-and-file politicians refuse early vaccine up-take
The overall message that Covid-19 is ‘running rampant’ with potentially more lethal variants embedded in the community appears not to have bothered Portugal’s backbench politicians. Quite a number have openly
Amazon launches site for Portugal…in Portuguese!
Amazon has finally given Portuguese online shoppers exactly what was missing: a site in the Portuguese language. Up till now, nationals have had to navigate the Spanish site, run out
Deaths at new daily maximum; hundreds of vaccines spoiled in Penafiel: another dismal day in Portugal
It has been another dismal day in Portugal’s agonising battle against Covid-19. Deaths are ‘the highest they have ever been’ (+293), new infections are over 15,000 (again, the slow start
“Rigorous confinement of gypsy community” announced over Facebook by Socialist council
The Socialist council of Castro Verde in the Alentejo is in hot water today for having announced “the rigorous confinement” of its (local) gypsy community over Facebook – along with
Hospital Amadora-Sinta runs out of oxygen: patients transferred to Lisbon’s field hospitals
The oxygen ‘network’ of Hospital Amadora-Sintra ‘entered into collapse this evening’, writes Público, requiring the transfer of roughly 20 patients (see update below) to nearby units in Lisbon with field