Vaccine ‘shortage’ means Portugal’s most vulnerable “could be left waiting”
Portugal’s general medical council has reacted to news that there is already a vaccine ‘shortage’ (click here) – warning the country’s most vulnerable will be left waiting, and unprotected. There
Marcelo expected to extend Portugal’s State of Emergency to January 7
President Marcelo will be addressing the nation this evening at 8pm to extend the State of Emergency. Everything points to an extension to January 7. This is legally ‘unusual’, in
Portugal’s confidence in Covid vaccine? It’s rising…
Confidence in the vaccines on their way is not ‘stellar’, but it is rising. Says Público referring to a recent ‘barometer of social opinion’, at the end of October only
Portugal’s vaccination programme opens with 950,000 getting shots between January and February
Vaccination task force coordinator Francisco Ramos has set out Portugal’s ‘programme’. If all goes according to plan (meaning the Pfizer vaccination gets European Medicine Agency approval later this month), Phase
Children and pregnant women to be excluded from Portugal’s vaccination programme
Health minister Marta Temido has given some new pointers to the vaccination programme due to be published later today. Talking to journalists in Lisbon after the ‘vaccination task force’ delivered
Portuguese judges “won’t be disciplined” over controversial ruling highlighting doubts over Covid test reliability
The two Portuguese judges whose 34-page ruling over a case of illegal confinement of German tourists in the Azores created ‘ructions’ for authorities’ ‘official narrative’ will not be ‘disciplined’ by
“Save Algarve tourism”: Hotels desperate for grants to avoid “economic and social catastrophe”
Hoteliers in the Algarve are once again urging the Portuguese government to provide grants – funds they will not have to pay back – in order to “save the Algarve’s
“Light at end of tunnel”: vaccines on their way
With Christmas round the corner, Portugal appears at last to have some reason for festive cheer: health authorities have signed contracts for 22 million doses of Covid vaccines which should
Hunger strikers outside Portuguese parliament ‘left hanging’
Now into their fifth gruelling day without food, the eight men and one woman on hunger strike outside parliament in Lisbon have received cold comfort from prime minister António Costa.
Lowest number of new infections in six weeks: is Portugal turning the corner?
Today’s virus ‘update’ has come in with the lowest number of new infections registered in the last six weeks. With focus nationally on the enormous promise of 22 million doses