Portugal registers new maximum in Covid deaths: 155 in space of 24-hours
Portugal has registered a new maximum in Covid deaths: 155 in the space of 24-hours. That is 33 more than the previous day’s total of 122 (which was also ‘a
Portugal’s lockdown to last one month. PM makes announcement following key meeting with specialists
Portugal’s lockdown will last for a month. That is the absolute certainty coming out of today’s meeting between the government and specialists with medicines authority Infarmed. As to the rest,
Portugal expects Biden presidency will favour exports to US
Portugal is pinning its hopes on the change of president in the United States – believing it will benefit various exporting industries. Says Dinheiro Vivo, the cork, footwear and green
Measures in place for Portugal’s presidential elections include need to ‘bring your own pen’
Measures in place to ensure voting goes ahead ‘safely’ in Portugal’s presidential elections on January 24 include the need for every presencial voter to carry a pen. Postal votes have
Portugal’s funeral agencies “have never seen anything like it”: last seven days register more than 500 deaths per day
The pandemic, the time of year, other conditions exacerbated by the cold weather have conspired to bring about no less than 500 deaths per day in Portugal for the last
New Covid test developed in Portugal using technology to identify grape varieties
Investigators at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro have come up with a rapid way of testing for Covid-19 using technology that identifies grape varieties for the production of
Portugal’s President Marcelo tests positive for Covid-19
Breaking news this evening is that President Marcelo has tested positive for Covid-19 (see update below). In the last two weeks of a presidential campaign, and with a crunch meeting
Portugal’s ‘extreme risk boroughs ‘double’ in less than two weeks
Portugal currently has 57 council areas at ‘extreme risk’ of Covid transmission. This translates into populations within them having more than 960 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants. As the
Italian rubbish exporter sues Portugal for €8 million over ‘tons of waste’ country no longer wants
Italian ‘environmental solutions’ company Enki Ambiente has reacted very badly to Portugal’s decision to block all imports of foreign rubbish during the pandemic (click here). It has lodged an action
Portugal’s hospitals at limit: minister admits possibility of ‘civil requisition’
With hospitals everywhere reaching their limit, health minister Marta Temido has today ‘admitted advancing with a civil requisition’, meaning the government would ‘take over private hospitals’ in order to treat