Covid-19 update: from bad to encouraging news
There is some really bad news, some sort-of bad news and some maybe encouraging news. Let’s start with the really bad and work our way through to the more encouraging
DGS dithering delays promised announcement on reduction of period for ‘self isolation’
In spite of announcing yesterday that a decision would be forthcoming “within hours”, the DGS hierarchy has failed to give any orientation this morning on a change in rules on
Health service in meltdown: not due to illness, but to sheer numbers of people arriving without being ill
The flip side of mass-testing – and an SNS-24 hour hotline that simply cannot keep up with calls – has meant that hundreds of thousands of people, the majority needing
“Maybe we should just let people become infected naturally”: epidemiologist opens possibility of ‘light’ at end of Covid tunnel
Epidemiologist and member of Portugal’s Vaccine Technical Commission Manuel Carmo Gomes has opened the door to a different approach to Covid-19, now that the Omicron variant has been (almost) universally
Algarve residents entitled to six free Covid tests per month: find a testing centre near you
There are 11 Covid-19 testing centres operating in the Algarve where residents can get free tests. They are located in Lagos, Portimão, Albufeira, Loulé, Faro, Olhão, São Brás de Alportel
Six times less people die in Portugal of Covid this Christmas compared to 2020
SIC television news has been reporting on the “clear impact” of the country’s impressive vaccination roll-out. With close on 90% of the country now fully immunised, numbers this Christmas –
Only 8% of children in Madeira take up Covid vaccines: “inconceivable”, rails regional government
Only 8% of children in Madeira have come forward to take up the offer of mRNA vaccinations against Covid-19. The regional government has dubbed the situation “inconceivable, after two years
“Only 35% of over-80s in hospital with Covid in October were vaccinated” – official data
The drive to encourage citizens to take-up the offer of Covid booster shots continues apace in Portugal, with new statistics revealed suggesting ‘two-thirds of the over 80s hospitalised with Covid-19
Free Covid tests: Portimão opens two additional Covid-19 testing centres
Two additional Covid-19 testing centres offering free tests to the population are available in Portimão – one can be found along the riverside area near the ‘coreto’ (bandstand) and the
Cardiologist questions why “parents coerced into submitting children to an experimental vaccine precisely when new variant enters Portugal about which little is known”
Cardiologist Teresa Gomes Mota has taken to print to ask why ““parents are being coerced into submitting their children to an experimental vaccine precisely when a new variant has entered