Portugal sees ticket sales for shows drop by over 80%
Two of Portugal’s main platforms for ticket sales for shows saw a drop in sales of over 80%, due to the pandemic, Lusa news agency reported. Between March this year,
Monster fines face anyone flouting Portugal’s Covid rules for Nazaré’s monster waves
Five weeks since authorities pulled the plugs on surfing at ‘monster wave beach’ Praia do Norte in Nazaré, daredevil enthusiasts are being allowed back – but only on weekdays and
Make-or- ‘brake’ week starts with lowest Covid case numbers in fortnight
The week in which prime minister António Costa has guaranteed he will ‘pull the handbrake on Christmas concessions’ if he has to has started with the lowest number of new
Portugal registers over three Covid deaths every hour
Since the beginning of this month Portugal has been registering an average of 3.4 deaths from Covid-19 every hour. This is one of the dismal headlines today as Sunday’s figures
Portugal’s Christmas plans “could see Covid mortality skyrocket”
New studies flagged by the media today warn Portugal’s Christmas plans could see Covid mortality skyrocket. Expresso carries a full page under the grim headline: “Without care at Christmas, an
Fado club launches morning brunch, adapts to pandemic lockdown
A Fado club in Portugal has adapted under the pandemic and to the new COVID-19 lockdown restrictions, launching Brunch Fado mornings to show that passion for the melancholic Portuguese folk
More than a third of Portuguese “don’t want Covid vaccination”
More than a third of Portuguese quizzed have said ‘they don’t want to be vaccinated against Covid-19’. This is the message coming from a study undertaken by Eurosondagem for onlines
Novo Banco boss predicts Algarve “can be among first regions to recover” from crisis
António Ramalho – president of Portugal’s Novo Banco, the so-called ‘good bank’ created in the aftermath of the BES debacle – has predicted that the Algarve “can be one of
Algarve company launches device that it claims “kills Covid-19”
Algarve-based company ASPA-UVC has launched a new handheld device called the ‘ASPA Surface Purifier’ which it says eradicates “Covid-19 and 99.99% of all bacteria and viruses” from surfaces. The device
VRSA businesses lament “worst Christmas in last 35 years”
Businesses in the border town of Vila Real de Santo António say this Christmas season has been and will likely continue to be “the worst of the last 35 years”.