Covid Digital Certificates and testing “just for the summer”
News from Expresso today is that the use of Covid Digital Certificates and testing to give diners access to restaurant interiors (as well as other venues) should only be for
Algarve waterparks can finally reopen…
The government has released waterparks from four miserable weeks of enforced closure in the name of controlling the pandemic. As reports have explained, the waterparks never agreed with the decision
Doctors and pharmacists tell Portuguese government: “it’s time to recover the right to live”
Doctors and pharmacists have put their names to an Open Letter initiative today declaring it is time to “recover the right to live”. They contend that government’s ‘extraordinary measures of
Portugal’s education minister hopes children get vaccinated against Covid-19 in time for next school year
With experts still warning there is no data to determine if benefits outweigh the risks of extending Covid vaccines to children, Portugal’s education minister Tiago Brandão Rodrigues appears to have
Council of Ministers extends no-go restaurants rules to 90 municipalities – 14 in Algarve
Just as predicted, today’s Council of Ministers far from reining in on unpopular measures introduced last week has extended them. There are now 90 municipalities in which restaurant interiors will
Latest Covid measures deal new blow to hospitality sector
Portugal’s State of Calamity took on even further calamitous proportions last Thursday when the government announced new measures that effectively dropped a neutron bomb on the battered hospitality sector. With
Delta variant accounts for every detected case in Algarve
The Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus accounted for every detected case in the Algarve and Lisbon and Vale do Tejo regions between June 28 and July 4, according to
“Worst of pandemic has passed” says Marcelo as hospital admissions climb
Hospital admissions for complications with Covid-19 leapt over the weekend; incidence nationally is now running at 325.2 cases per 100,000 inhabitants – but the message coming from Portugal’s president is
Lagoa postpones July cultural events
Lagoa Council has confirmed that all of the cultural events that it was due to organise in July have been postponed due to the borough’s worsening epidemiological situation. The decision
Head of General Medical Council balks at government’s autotest concession
While the majority of citizens – if not businesses – are reeling from the government’s decision that people must provide proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test in order