Order given to suspend non-urgent activity in Portugal’s State hospitals
A dispatch signed by the Ministry of Health has today given the order to suspend all non-urgent ‘assistential activity’ in SNS state hospitals for the month of November. Said a
“We don’t have clients”: Portugal’s hoteliers association presents government with 10-point emergency programme
Portugal’s hoteliers association AHRESP has presented the government today with a 10-point emergency programme, explaining: “We don’t have clients”. The executive’s support available to companies doesn’t take into account that
“Here comes the Army”: even before Portugal’s State of Emergency in place
With the country still waiting to hear the terms of Portugal’s new State of Emergency, a dispatch published in government newspaper Diário da República this morning shows the Armed Forces
“Never have there been more recoveries in 24-hours”: Covid latest Portugal
“Never has the number of recoveries registered in the last 24-hours been higher”. This is the interpretation of today’s Covid ‘numbers’ in Portugal which otherwise carry a high death toll
Portugal’s ethnic minorities complain of being ‘heavily policed’ through pandemic
Ethnic minority business owners in ‘marginalised neighbourhoods’ around Lisbon say they are being treated differently to white people by the police. Al Jazeera television news has highlighted what it calls
Young Portuguese injured in Vienna terror attack
A young Portuguese-Luxembourg national is in hospital today following the horror of a new ‘Islamic terror’ attack, this time in Vienna, Austria. Coming in the wake of recent attacks in
Minute’s silence for Portugal’s Covid deaths as State of Emergency looms ever closer
President Marcelo led a dramatic homage today to ‘all deaths, especially those of ‘victims of Covid-19’ as prime minister António Costa tries to gather political support for the declaration of
Covid ‘numbers’ Sunday scream “Portugal’s hospitals with highest number of patients yet…”
Sunday’s Covid numbers are bringing little joy: another 37 deaths (a little down on the last couple of days), ‘only’ 3,062 new cases of infection (but we are told this
Lagoa mayor signs Alagoas Brancas death warrant
After all the appeals, protests, scientific studies and warnings of looming disaster, Mayor of Lagoa Luís Encarnação has gone ahead with controversial plans to concrete over a floodplain that in
Right-wing Chega poised to tip teetering Socialist ‘balance’ in Azores
Right-wing party Chega is poised to tip the teetering Socialist balance in the Azores. After 24 years in which PS Socialists have run the regional government, plans are afoot to