D-Day for lifting restrictions: restaurants “won’t be increasing table numbers”
With tomorrow (Friday) October 1 being the day multiple Covid restrictions are finally lifted, reports suggests restaurants won’t be rushing to replace tables removed during the pandemic. The reason is
President Marcelo calls time on unseemly political battle involving Covid vaccinations hero
President Marcelo has shown exactly where his powers lie after an unseemly political battle blew up ‘out of nowhere’ at the very moment that Portugal’s vaccinations task force ‘hero’ vice
Mission accomplished: Covid vaccination Task Force disbands as over 84% of country fully-jabbed
Vice-admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo – the man an article in the Financial Times has described as the ‘quiet hero of Portugal’s fight against Covid-19’ – stepped down today from
Portuguese specialist in favour of vaccinating children against Covid-19 “has contract with Pfizer”
A second Portuguese medical expert in favour of vaccinating children against Covid-19 has been found to be on the Pfizer payroll. Sábado writes that pediatrician and associate professor in infectious
Task force appeals to all those naturally ‘recovered’ from Covid to take up vaccine
Portugal’s vaccination task force is appealing to people who have had Covid-19 and recovered to turn up and receive the vaccine. “Only together will it be possible to beat this
Mother and child win battle for right not to be vaccinated against Covid-19
The exhausting battle waged by a mother and her 12-year-old daughter for the latter’s right not to be vaccinated against Covid-19 has finally ended, with the youngster free to pick
PM Costa plots Portugal’s path to ‘freedom’ in new “State of Alert”
Prime Minister António Costa has this afternoon laid out the new ‘rules’ for Portugal’s return to relative freedom from Friday October 1. With the pandemic ‘under control’ and numbers showing
Portugal’s medical profession girds itself for battle with respected (‘negationist’) doctor
All hell has (finally) broken loose over comments made 10 days ago at a negationist rally. The reason is that they were made by internationally respected Portuguese doctor Fernando Nobre
One in five over-65s “won’t develop antibodies” even after two doses of Covid vaccine
“There is an expressive number of people, among the 2.3 million over-65s who have received two doses of the Pfizer vaccine against Covid-19, who are not protected”. This is the
Portugal prepares to tackle threat of “twindemic”
DGS health chiefs in Portugal are preparing for the threat of a “twindemic” this autumn – a moment when the flu virus is expected to ‘return in force’, just as