Mass-testing to go forwards throughout schools community
The ministry of education has announced that “testing for Covid-19 directed at the school community” (meaning public and private institutions) will start in September and continue on into October. The
Portugal’s vaccination roll-out “ahead of USA, UK and Israel”
After a slow start, various European countries (Portugal included) have caught up in race to get their populations vaccinated against Covid-19 A text in Expresso this week that still refers
European Medicines Agency ‘investigates three possible new adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines’
Expresso reports that EMA, the European Medicines Agency, is investigating three possible new adverse reactions to mRNA vaccines – the Pfizer and Moderna shots the EU has been seen to
Marcelo steps into pressure building for third Covid vaccine dose
President Marcelo has stepped into the ‘pressure’ that seems to be building for a third dose of Covid vaccine to be administered nationally (click here). This latest ‘furore’ smacks of
New Covid outbreak in old people’s home where staff and residents fully-vaccinated
So far only one death has been recorded in a new outbreak of Covid-19 in an old people’s home where all residents and staff have been fully vaccinated (and passed
DGS publishes list of 10 priorities for vaccination of 12-15 year olds against Covid-19
DGS health orientation on childhood conditions which qualify for vaccination against Covid-19 have finally been ‘published’. But the development has done little to calm rising criticism, largely because it took
Portugal to green-light Chinese and Indian vaccines
Good news at last for the five million Brits barred from holidaying in Portugal because they have been fully-jabbed with the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India: Portuguese authorities have agreed
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
Hospital numbers leap to 613 as race is on to vaccinate as many Portuguese as humanly possible
The urgency cited by vaccine coordinator Henrique Gouveia e Melo couldn’t be better illustrated than by today’s Covid bulletin. In the space of just 24-hours, the number of people being
Portugal’s plan to ‘thwart spread of Delta’ includes vaccinating 850,000 people per week
Portugal’s plan to thwart the worst effects of the spread of the Delta variant is to accelerate numbers being vaccinated. The objective is to vaccinate up to 140,000 people per