Covid restrictions: ‘no end in sight’
Authorities balk at accepting virus is endemic for almost a year In spite of cases of SARS-CoV-2 decreasing, deaths “associated with Covid-19 have increased in the last few weeks”, and
A&Es ‘stuffed’ with people with respiratory infections
… but DGS says nothing because it isn’t covid-19 This is the gist of one of the latest stories by PáginaUm, an online that emerged during the pandemic principally because
Portugal bucks Europe’s Covid trend
Cases and deaths reduce in all regions: “we are on different path to other countries” For all the talk of a ‘sixth wave’, Portugal (so far) seems to be bucking
DGS publishes vaccination priorities for incoming refugees
… and they’re not COVID-19 Portugal DGS health authority has today published a new rule defining strategies for vaccinating foreign nationals arriving in Portugal under ‘situations of temporary protection’. Top
Doctors call for strategy for ‘long covid’
‘Long covid’ should have a national strategy, say public health doctors The Portuguese Association of Public Health Doctors (ANMSP) says a specific national strategy for ‘long covid’ should be created, similar
“No need for 4th dose of Covid vaccine”
Experts “guarantee”, says Expresso, “for the time being…” In what Expresso presents as an exclusive this morning, the paper’s online proclaims “Covid-19: DGS specialists guarantee there is no necessity for
Portugal’s 40,400 ‘collateral mortality’
Excess deaths “more than double those with Covid” Given that Portugal’s Covid death-toll is already ‘over-inflated’, reports in the media this weekend refer to a study published in the Lancet
Sixth Covid wave forecast
Superior Technical Institute says pandemic in Portugal “aggravating significantly” Just as the country received another positive Covid daily bulletin; just as the DGS finally agreed there is no need to
Goodbye daily Covid bulletins
DGS calls time on day-by-day tally of disease on wane Not before time, Portugal’s DGS health authority has decided to do away with the daily bulletins published mid-afternoon charting the
Omicron’s Variant BA.2 is now dominant in Portugal: mortality ‘high’
In spite of the impression that Covid updates are the last new items anyone anywhere in the world is seeking out, they come relentlessly. Diário de Notícias today stresses that