Free antigen tests reducing from four a month to two from March
With the winding down of vaccination centres (the current 192 will reduce to 139 from next Tuesday), authorities have decided to reduce the number of free antigen tests available to
Portuguese have to be aware this war will cause “some economic sacrifice”
This was the message from PSD leader Rui Rio today, fully backed by foreign affairs minister Santos Silva. Indeed, Expresso says it will have helped that Rio warned of the
Costa accuses Russia of “war against democracy”
An extraordinary meeting this afternoon of NATO countries – which included representation from Sweden and Finland – saw PM António Costa emerge accusing Russia of waging a war against democracy;
Portugal’s finance minister says EU counterparts ‘studying implications of excluding Russia from SWIFT banking system”
In spite of today’s earlier news that Germany and Italy were/ are against banning Russia from the SWIFT banking system, Portugal’s finance minister João Leão has confirmed this afternoon that
Covid Friday bulletin: 32 deaths, 10,376 new cases, incidence falls
Friday’s Covid bulletin issued by the DGS health authority has ‘good news’ and not so good. Not so good is the fact that deaths are back ‘up’, away from the
Portugal accused of ‘hiding’ information on Russians with golden visas
“Russians in Portugal could suffer sanctions” as a result of the current war being waged against Ukraine. But that is as far as Portuguese authorities seem prepared to say. There
Twitter re-defines meaning of ‘definitively’ as Chega leader sees account re-established
For all its tough talking, Twitter has backed down on its decision to expel Chega leader André Ventura from its community ‘definitively’. The outspoken right-wing MP is already back –
Portugal’s schools ‘don’t have means to recover pupils’ lost education’
Portugal’s schools don’t have the means to recover the learning pupils have lost as a result of the two years of disruption caused by the pandemic, Fenprof teachers syndicate leader
PJ cracks down on Chinese extortion and drug trafficking racket
PJ police in Porto have detained six Chinese nationals “who terrorised shop keepers of the same nationality, demanding payments which reached €5,000 per month”, reports Correio da Manhã this morning.
1,800 Portuguese military ready to take part in NATO’s ‘dissuasive presence on Ukraine’s borders”
Close to 1,800 Portuguese military could be mobilised within the next few days to take part in NATO’s dissuasive mission within allied countries on Ukraine’s borders. Yesterday’s meeting of the