“Christmas with few round table. New Year without parties”
At a point where the country is being bombarded with dismal information almost by the hour, PM António Costa has told Rádio Observador that Portugal has to be prepared for
22 million doses of Covid vaccines ‘on way to Portugal’
The ministry of health has confirmed that 22 million doses of the six Covid vaccines so far produced are ‘on their way to Portugal’. Contracts signed with producers (see below)
Virus update, Christmas plans: new meeting with medicines authority Infarmed scheduled for Thursday
PM António Costa has invited political parties and social partners for a new meeting with medicines authority Infarmed designed to report on Portugal’s latest ‘epidemiological situation’ in terms of the
First tranche of €6 billion ‘SURE’ business loan to arrive in Portugal on Tuesday
The first tranche of the €5.9 billion SURE programme of loans from Brussels – to help Portugal through some of the rigors of the pandemic – will be arriving tomorrow.
Government turns blind-eye to business owners staging hunger strike by steps of Portuguese parliament
As high profile as it is, members of Portugal’s Socialist government have managed to blank the hunger strike being staged by nine desperate business owners camped out by the steps
Murder or accident: police probe gunshot death of peaceful young farmer
PJ police are today trying to understand what lies behind the apparent gunshot death of a ‘peaceful farmer’. The body of Cláudio Sérgio Nascimento – described as ‘one of the
“Employment dependent on Covid vaccine”: European committee prompts new controversy
“Employment dependent on vaccine”/ “Businesses can deny work to those who do not want to be vaccinated” – these are just two headlines in the Portuguese media today following the
Portugal’s TAP “throws 3600 into unemployment”
Indebted airline TAP is preparing for a massive reduction of airplanes and employees – reducing numbers on the payroll as well as wages in 2021 and 2022. The idea is
Lowest number of Covid deaths in Portugal for last week
Sunday’s numbers have come through with ‘ups and downs’ for Portugal – the most positive aspect being the lowest Covid-19 death count in the last week. Case numbers at 4,093
Algarve “has 10 days to save Christmas”
The Algarve has 10 days to save Christmas. The majority of those 10 days see the region, and the country, confined to ‘borough lockdowns’. But whereas 127 boroughs are also