Pundits discuss impact of Covid-19 on tourism: “no return to normal until vaccine is found”
Life won’t be returning to normal until a coronavirus vaccine is found. It’s a statement that is being repeated across the globe and was one of the focal points of
Heartwarming stories of businesses ‘fighting back’ include Iranian dressmaker producing PPE, and Portuguese farm making pizzas for local workers
Wherever one looks in the landscape transformed by the new coronavirus, there are stories of hope and heartwarming solidarity. CNN highlights the rural farm in São Teotónio that is keeping
Portugal’s second-largest hotel chain plans to reopen in June and is “already getting ready for guests”
Portugal’s second-largest hotel chain is busily preparing to reopen in June, joining what Euronews online describes as “a scramble by Europe’s tourism industry to salvage what it can from this
#SavePeopleNotPlanes: 70,000 sign letter to PM Costa
70,000 people have signed a letter to prime minister António Costa supporting the #SavePeopleNotPlanes: Stay Grounded initiative, promoted by 300 environmental NGOs, 15 of them from Portugal. It’s a three-pronged
Borough lockdowns back in place as country approaches end of 3rd State of Emergency
Borough lockdowns are being imposed for the long weekend that coincides with the end of Portugal’s 3rd State of Emergency. Say reports, prime minister António Costa says citizens have to
Covid-19 ‘can reach brain’: Porto scientists evaluate effects on survivors
Covid-19 has been seen to ‘reach the brain’ – thus scientists in Porto want to discover if this will cause damage further down the line. “We know the virus can
Portuguese nurse who treated Boris Johnson in hospital ‘breaks his silence’
The ‘hero’ Portuguese nurse who helped Boris Johnson survive Covid-19 infection has finally ‘broken his silence’. At least that is what is being reported in Portugal today. In truth, Luís
“Catapult or bazooka?” Costa pushes EU on extent of Covid recovery ‘firepower’
Today (Thursday) sees another ‘crucial’ meeting, this time of the European Council, towards deciding how countries are to be financed through their ‘post-Covid recoveries’. Making no bones about the fact
500 crew remain ‘imprisoned’ on cruise ship docked in Lisbon
500 men and women, hired as staff on the MSC Fantasia which arrived in Lisbon in March with 1,338 passengers on board, remain confined to their cabins, unpaid and with
New changes to lay-off scheme “could exclude many businesses”
The government “doesn’t stop changing the rules of the simplified lay-off scheme” designed to help businesses cope with enforced lockdown. Stress reports, there are now “contradictions between what was promised