Portuguese drug company involved in producing medication given emergency use authorisation for Covid-19 patients
Portuguese drug company Hovione is involved in the production of an Ebola medication given emergency use authorisation for the treatment of patients with Covid-19. America’s Food & Drug Agency (FDA)
Portugal contributes €10 million to Europe’s campaign to develop Covid-19 vaccine and treatment
In a press conference this morning, prime minister António Costa announced Portugal is contributing €10 million to Europe’s effort to develop a vaccine and treatment to combat Covid-19. The money
Brussels rejects Portugal’s plan to fly aircraft at ⅔ capacity
Advice from Brussels has ‘rejected’ Portugal’s plan to fly aircraft at ⅔ capacity as a measure during the virus pandemic. Economy minister Pedro Siza Vieira reacted to the news coming
‘Made in Portugal’ masks ready for export market, says economy minister
‘Made in Portugal’ masks are now being turned out by national producers at the rate of a million a day. The idea has always been to supply the internal market,
From Emergency to Calamity – what changes from tomorrow…
Portugal’s State of Emergency lockdown ended at midnight last night, but for the purposes of this weekend inhabitants are still ‘locked in their boroughs of residence’, unable to travel beyond
Population in shock as lorry-loads of refuse from Covid-infected Italy flood landfill
Residents of Lustosa (Lousada), in the north of Portugal, are horrified by the arrival of hundreds of container loads of Italian rubbish destined for the town’s landfill site. They fear
Syndicates out in force on May Day warning of new wave of austerity
With May 1 signalling ‘Labour Day’ syndicates came out in force in Lisbon – creatively managing rules for social distancing – to warn against a new wave of austerity developing
Bulgarian freed after confessing to murder ‘caught fleeing to Spain’
Christo Peev, the 33-year-old Bulgarian freed after admitting the murder of a 62-year-old Swiss woman, resident in Portugal for decades, has been ‘caught fleeing to Spain’ in violation of his
President Trump makes May Day call to Belém and congratulates Portuguese response to pandemic
US President Donald J Trump has called Portugal’s head of state President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa this May Day afternoon for a “very cordial” discussion on “diverse subjects of bilateral
Brussels sets out to ‘harmonise’ Europe’s return to tourism “before the summer”
European commissioner Thierry Breton is focused on working with the 27 (member states) for a “safe reopening” of the bloc, “including of frontiers, that will free the tourism sector from