DGS shortens time span between administration of Pfizer doses
A new rule, published today on the DGS health authority site is that the time span between first and second shots of the Pfizer vaccine has been reduced from 28
Confusion as some parents and schools say: “We want children vaccinated”
There is some confusion this week following the announcement by DGS health director Graça Freitas that healthy children from the ages of 12 upwards do not, for the time being,
Portugal’s RT is below 1: “best Saturday for a month” in terms of numbers of new infections
Portugal’s RT (transmission) number is at last below 1 (coming in at 0.98 as of yesterday). This has seen today’s Covid bulletin register the ‘lowest number of new infections on
Healthy children in Portugal “not required to take up Covid vaccines” … for time being
DGS health chiefs have finally ‘spoken’ on the hotly-contested subject of whether or not to authorise vaccinations against Covid-19 in healthy children from the ages of 12 upwards. Madeira has
Restaurants against Covid Digital Certificates at weekends hear ‘vaccinated transmit Delta variant as much as non-vaccinated’
Restaurants in Portugal are still balking at government ‘rules’ that force them to ask clients to show Covid Digital Certificates to take-up reservations inside at weekends and Bank Holidays. And
Portugal’s children are “suddenly becoming ill all at once”
“The feeling we have is that, suddenly, the children are all becoming sick at the same time”. These are the words of pediatrician Joana Martins, one of the child-health experts
Portugal’s blood stocks running low – some only guaranteeing another four days of supply
Portugal’s blood stocks are running low – some only guaranteeing another four days of supply. According to the Portuguese blood institute, lowest reserves are those for type O-, A- and
Restaurants losing €5 billion this year say “NO” to Covid Digital Certificate and testing
As Portugal wakes up to yet another day in which ‘new measures to help curb the spread of SARS-CoV-2’ are to be announced by the Council of Ministers, restaurant association
Portugal ponders banning unvaccinated from cafés, restaurants and supermarkets
This is the bottom line coming out of yesterday’s meeting between government ministers and health experts at Infarmed. It is seen as the easiest way to get the one in
Portuguese family doctors sound new alert about Covid tunnel vision
A second group of doctors in Portugal has published a new warning about authorities’ Covid tunnel vision. After the appeal just over a week ago from specialists to “recover the