Complementary exams needed before authorities can give results on tragic Rodrigo’s post-Covid vaccine death
Authorities have said they cannot give the results of the post-mortem of the six-year-old child who died following his first shot of mRNA Covid vaccine, as “complementary exams” are needed,
Death of six-year-old child: Infarmed confirms notification of suspicion of adverse reaction to vaccine
The death of a six-year-old boy in Lisbon on Sunday following “notification of a suspected adverse reaction” to the Covid vaccine is under investigation. Medicines authority Infarmed has said: “We
Portugal’s R number falls yet again as experts ‘divided’ over peak
Portugal’s R number – the indication of how many people a positive case of SARS-CoV-2 will go on to infect – has dropped yet again in another day in which
“It’s important to free children; leave them in peace at school”, urges child psychiatrist
Child psychiatrist Pedro Caldeira da Silva has defended the urgent need to “find a way of freeing children” from the damaging psychology perpetuated through the pandemic. It’s very important, he
Specialists call for change in way Covid is ‘monitored’ in Portugal
Specialists are calling time on the daily Covid bulletins that bombard citizens with numbers every day. An article in Expresso this weekend explains that Omicron has changed the landscape. “It
Covid incidence nationally up to 3,796 cases per 100,000; Lisbon sees 5,000
In many ways today is another ‘black day’ when it comes to numbers: another 40,090 new cases of Covid infection; a leap in the daily death toll to 34 (the
Five days into new term directors warn schools may need to close through staff absences
Five days into the new school term – and when schools reopened late due to measures designed to ‘contain the pandemic – directors are warning they may have to call
Portuguese Covid vaccine stymied through lack of funding
A little like the ‘miracle’ of a repurposed drug to reduce the effects of Covid-19, Portuguese scientific solutions to the pandemic continue to be sidelined by authorities. Today, Bruno Santos,
Major spike in hospital admissions as virus incidence climbs to 3,204.4 per 100,000 citizens
There has been a major spike today in the numbers of people being admitted to hospital in Portugal for complications as a result of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2. 139 people
Doctors against breaking Covid isolation to allow people to vote
The Association of Public Health doctors is so against any measure to allow people in isolation out of their homes to vote that they have resorted to veiled threats. Association