WHO Director-General says 106,000 new cases have been reported in the past 24 hours alone. The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned today that there is still a "long way to go" in relation to covid-19, saying that in the last 24 hours alone, 106,000 new cas...
LISBON. Portugal’s Prime Minister, António Costa, has today received a guarantee from the French President, Emmanuel Macron, that no quarantine measure will be imposed on Portuguese emigrants who return to France across the land border with Spain. On his official twitter account Costa wrote the reassurance w...
- Dinesh gautam, Cyprus. Cyprus should look to ways of ensuring the British market is able to fly into the island’s airports and keep the sector afloat, the head of the Paphos hoteliers association told the Cyprus Mail on Monday Euripides Loizides, who also owns the Mayfair Hotel in Paphos which has been us...
When restaurants and cafes reopen this month, they should favour the use of terraces and the 'take away' service and should encourage prior scheduling, according to guidance from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) released on 8 May. In the guidance, the DGS establishes the various measures that food and be...
Portugal today recorded a total of 1,114 deaths related to covid-19 today, nine more than on Thursday, and 27,268 infected (553 more), according to the epidemiological bulletin released today by the Directorate-General for Health. Compared to Thursday's data, which recorded 1,105 deaths, today there was an incre...
The government has lifted the state of emergency in Portugal which has now been replaced with a state of calamity. But what exactly does that mean for everyday life? On a basic level, this means that restrictions are easing in Portugal to allow the opening of further businesses and certain activities. Every 1...
Attacks on press freedom in Europe are in serious danger of becoming the new normal, alert 14 international press freedom groups and journalists' organizations, including the European Federation of Journalists (FEJ), in which the Union of Journalists (SJ ) is affiliated. The Council of Europe's 2020 Annual Rep...
. Quentin Warlop Obstructions and intimidation. Journalists threatened, sometimes arrested and muzzled media. Wage reductions, loss of income, bonuses or layoffs. On this International Press Freedom Day, the facts are clear: the Covid-19 pandemic is also affecting the press around the world. Journalists are cert...
Lisbon. A Nepali man has been admitted to hospital in Milfontos, about 190 kilometers south of the Portuguese capital Lisbon, after showing symptoms of corona. The Nepalis who were taken to the hospital had been suffering from fever for more than a week. He has been suffering from respiratory problems for the...
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); NEW YORK: More than 2.38 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 164,918 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the...