Author: Natasha Donn

Three days into Portugal’s latest lockdown, and commentators everywhere are saying “Lockdown? What lockdown?” With all the exceptions that allow people to leave their homes (walking dogs/ taking children to

It’s the story of the last 24-hours, with the first hospital to announce it was approaching a state of pre-catastrophe that of Garcia Orta, in Almada (Lisbon outskirts). With Lisbon/

With a new lockdown in place, catering association AHRESP has warned of a “wave of business closures” in Portugal.  But in Lisbon, one café restaurant has stood up and said

At last, a positive Covid story: the kind everyone should hold onto. 31-year-old miracle mum Elisângela Neves hopes it brings hope in these bleakest of times. Elisângela was 27 weeks

Portugal has registered yet another day of pandemic ‘maximums’: more deaths than ever before (166 in the last 24 hours), more new cases than ever before (10,947) and more people

In Lisbon today to ‘define the programme for the Portuguese presidency of the Council of the European Union’, European Commission president Ursula Von der Leyen was optimistic about the arrival

It was trail-blazed in August as “fundamental” in the fight to combat Covid-19. Authorities appealed to everyone living in Portugal to download the StayAway Covid app designed to ‘ping’ warnings

Numbers of new infections have again come through at over 10,600 in the last 24-hour period, with a new maximum in the daily number of deaths (+159) and another 192

Following the appalling death of a Ukrainian at the hands of three SEF border guards at Lisbon airport, the entire service is being ‘extinguished’. 1800 workers – including roughly 1000

Supermarkets and hypermarkets may be remaining open during Portugal’s current lockdown, but they will not be free to sell non-essential items. The list of ‘forbidden articles’ includes books, decorative items,