Portugal’s looming borough lockdowns “absolutely illegal”, says presidential candidate
Presidential candidate and lawyer Tiago Mayan Gonçalves has told Público and Rádio Renascença this week that the borough lockdowns coming into place at one minute past midnight tonight are “absolutely
Moroccan migrants trafficked through Portugal “could be recruits for European gangs”
A ‘highly placed’ security source has warned that the recent influx of Moroccan ‘boat people’, arriving on Portugal’s shores could be recruits for violent European gangs. Talking to Diário de
Air pollution “may have increased Covid death-toll in Portugal by 11%
Atmospheric pollution may have increased Portugal’s new coronavirus death-toll by 11%, say specialists in a study that puts new emphasis on why the disease appears to have been most prevalent
Call for night-time curfew
Following the seven days between October 20-27 in which Portugal registered more new cases of Covid-19 than during the whole month of September, PS power makers have had no choice.
Portugal’s private hospitals ‘ready to help’ pandemic combat but cite ‘non-existent’ relationship with SNS
Contrary to declarations by Minister of State Marta Temido, the president of the association of private hospitals in Portugal (APHP) claims his sector has a non-existent relationship with the SNS/
PM calls ‘extraordinary meeting of Council of Ministers’ for Saturday to define new measures to combat spiralling pandemic
PM António Costa has called an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers for this Saturday to define new measures to combat the spiralling pandemic. Say reports this morning, he
Portugal’s PM declares State health service funding “almost as much as Brussels’ bazooka”
With the debate on the 2021 State Budget going ahead in parliament this afternoon, PM António Costa has announced a new tranche of funding for the beleaguered SNS health service,
Portugal registers more cases in last week than for whole of September
Portugal’s virus numbers are rising so exponentially now that warnings about an imminent return to a State of Emergency seem to be everywhere. Today’s figures – another 28 deaths and
Portugal rolls out ‘rapid tests’ to help stem outbreaks in schools and OAP homes
The national strategy for Covid testing determines that in situations of outbreaks in schools, OAP homes or other institutions rapid tests should be used so that ‘adequate measures’ can be
Police “run into brick wall” in bid to solve Maddie ‘murder’
German and British police have been in Portugal trying to solidify the ‘theory’ that German pedophile Christian Brückner murdered Madeleine McCann in Portugal and disposed of her body (click here).