Cyberattack insurance: companies expect spike in interest following Impresa hack
The devastating hack into the systems of the Impresa group this week (click here) has seen insurance companies accept there is bound to be a spike in interest in cyberattack
Vaccinations exclusively for children and school community begin today
From today until Sunday, around 154,000 children between the ages of 5-11 will be being vaccinated in the mornings at centres up and down the country, while teachers and educators
Cine-clubs pushing for relaxation on ‘obligatory tests’
A group representing around 40 cinema clubs and associations is calling on the government to relax measures requiring clients to present negative tests. They are claiming that spectator numbers are
Restaurants desperate for financial compensation
PRO.VAR, the national association representing Portugal’s restaurants insists current ‘restrictions’ are continuing to cause unprecedented losses within the sector. In some cases, president Daniel Serra has said, businesses’ are down
Council of Ministers to lay out ‘pandemic strategy’ from next Monday
Today’s Council of Ministers is expected to lay out the country’s new ‘pandemic strategy’ (starting from next Monday), in the context of the milder, but highly transmissible Omicron variant. The
Freedoms should gradually be restored, say experts
In line with various other European countries, Portugal looks like it will be slowly taking its foot off the pedal when it comes to the imposition of everyday restrictions in
Bullfighter accused of 18 counts of animal abuse
Almost two years since 18 skeletal greyhounds were rescued from squalid conditions on his farm, ‘renowned’ Portuguese bullfighter João Moura has been accused of 18 crimes of animal mistreatment. One
Almost 40,000 new cases on day experts say ‘case numbers no longer pivotal’
Today’s DGS Covid bulletin has recorded just under 40,000 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 registered in the last 24-hours. It also comes against the backdrop of the latest ‘situation report’ by
Politicians keen to see people in isolation released in order to vote…
The enormous problem of how to get round the possibility that as much as 12% of the population could be ‘isolating’ due to Omicron by election day has seen politicians
Next variant “will probably be even less serious and more transmissible”
The next variant to take hold in Portugal after Omicron will probably be even less serious in terms of the illness it causes, and more transmissible. This was the message