Portugal’s vaccination programme opens with 950,000 getting shots between January and February
Vaccination task force coordinator Francisco Ramos has set out Portugal’s ‘programme’. If all goes according to plan (meaning the Pfizer vaccination gets European Medicine Agency approval later this month), Phase
Overtaxed imported cars could cost Portuguese government “tens of millions of euros”
An ‘unprecedented decision’ by arbitrators in Lisbon has meant that anyone who has imported a car into the country since 2017 can seek compensation for the fact that the taxation
Portugal pins hopes on post-Brexit tourism strategy
With Brexit promising to further impede Britons travelling overseas next year, Portugal is working on all kinds of ways it can ‘bring back the numbers’ to ‘save’ the nation’s tourism.
Children and pregnant women to be excluded from Portugal’s vaccination programme
Health minister Marta Temido has given some new pointers to the vaccination programme due to be published later today. Talking to journalists in Lisbon after the ‘vaccination task force’ delivered
Portuguese judges “won’t be disciplined” over controversial ruling highlighting doubts over Covid test reliability
The two Portuguese judges whose 34-page ruling over a case of illegal confinement of German tourists in the Azores created ‘ructions’ for authorities’ ‘official narrative’ will not be ‘disciplined’ by
Hunger strike outside Portuguese parliament faces day 7: Bosnian chef ‘back from hospital’
Yesterday’s ‘breaking news’ from the hunger strike outside Portugal’s parliamentary building was that celebrity chef and figurehead of the ‘Bread & Water movement’ Ljubomir Stanisic was ‘showing signs of ceding
“Light at end of tunnel”: vaccines on their way
With Christmas round the corner, Portugal appears at last to have some reason for festive cheer: health authorities have signed contracts for 22 million doses of Covid vaccines which should
Hunger strikers outside Portuguese parliament ‘left hanging’
Now into their fifth gruelling day without food, the eight men and one woman on hunger strike outside parliament in Lisbon have received cold comfort from prime minister António Costa.
Portugal’s healthcare chiefs in Covid isolation after DGS director-general tests positive
Portugal’s healthcare chiefs are in Covid isolation today after Graça Freitas – the country’s director-general of health – tested positive for the virus last night. The 63-year-old who has been
Lowest number of new infections in six weeks: is Portugal turning the corner?
Today’s virus ‘update’ has come in with the lowest number of new infections registered in the last six weeks. With focus nationally on the enormous promise of 22 million doses