Portimão urges caution as growing Covid-19 cases threaten to put it on “high-risk” list
Portimão Council is urging locals to follow health authorities’ recommendations at a time when the number of new Covid-19 cases in the municipality is rising and threatening to put it
Marcelo to address nation after today’s State of Emergency vote
President Marcelo will be addressing the nation this evening at 8pm, following the vote to declare a new State of Emergency in parliament this afternoon. As he has explained, his
Thursday’s Covid stats show marked drop in Portugal’s new infections from previous 24-hours
Today’s ‘Covid statistics’ have shown a marked drop in the number of new infections from the bulletin given 24-hours previously. But that’s largely because Wednesday figures were ‘off the scale’:
Presidential decree for ‘soft’ State of Emergency opens with ‘restrictions to liberty and mobility’
The presidential decree for a ‘soft’ State of Emergency in Portugal opens with ‘restrictions to liberty and mobility’. It is on its way to parliament this afternoon, and expected to
“I had Covid” series transmits positivity as Portugal enters new State of Emergency
With the parliamentary vote to approve a new State of Emergency due tomorrow – and 7.1 million inhabitants already in partial lockdown – tabloid Correio da Manhã has been publishing
New State of Emergency presented as ‘soft’ but ‘drastic measures’ could be round corner
Wednesday saw 7.1 million Portuguese in 121 mainland boroughs once again in partial lockdown as politicians argued the small print of a new declaration of State of Emergency expected to
Order given to suspend non-urgent activity in Portugal’s State hospitals
A dispatch signed by the Ministry of Health has today given the order to suspend all non-urgent ‘assistential activity’ in SNS state hospitals for the month of November. Said a
“We don’t have clients”: Portugal’s hoteliers association presents government with 10-point emergency programme
Portugal’s hoteliers association AHRESP has presented the government today with a 10-point emergency programme, explaining: “We don’t have clients”. The executive’s support available to companies doesn’t take into account that
“Here comes the Army”: even before Portugal’s State of Emergency in place
With the country still waiting to hear the terms of Portugal’s new State of Emergency, a dispatch published in government newspaper Diário da República this morning shows the Armed Forces
“Never have there been more recoveries in 24-hours”: Covid latest Portugal
“Never has the number of recoveries registered in the last 24-hours been higher”. This is the interpretation of today’s Covid ‘numbers’ in Portugal which otherwise carry a high death toll