- Lusa. The Prime Minister, António Costa, met this Monday with the presidents of the five municipalities in the metropolitan area of Lisbon that arouse greater concern due to the high number of new cases of covid-19 in recent weeks. New rules were defined, including the maintenance of the state of calamity ...
LUSA. The Sanctuary of Fátima has 16 cases of internal and external collaborators infected with covid-19, the Catholic religious institution said in a statement today. According to the statement, on Friday the Sanctuary of Fátima was informed that a collaborator was infected, so it gave an indication of prop...
LISBON. The number of deaths by coronavirus increased again in Portugal . This Sunday there are two more fatalities , totaling 1530 deaths. There are 39133 people infected with covid-19, plus 292 new cases in the last 24 hours. According to the bulletin released by the DGS, 1826 people are still awa...
Portugal recorded today a total of 1,522 deaths related to covid-19, two more than on Monday, and 37,336 infected, another 300, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin released by the Directorate-General for Health (DGS). In comparison with Monday's data, which recorded 1,520 deaths, today there was an increa...
Auckland. Jacinda Ardern became the first Prime Minister of New Zealand to attend the country's Pride March over the weekend. The Labour Party leader was one of 25,000 people at the colourful event in Auckland. She described it as a "particularly special" experience. Ms Ardern used the opportunity to appla...
Wearing masks in public is already compulsory or recommended for all in several countries, including India, Singapore, France, Spain, Germany and Argentina, among others. . Sanchita Sharma Masks can reduce the growth rate of coronavirus infection by 40%, a paper on the impact of the staggered use of mask...
The total number of fatalities recorded from the disease world over stood at nearly 430,000. The US is the worst-hit country with 2.1 million infections and almost 120,000 deaths. Worldwide, more than 4 million people - or 51% of those infected with Covid-19 - have recovered from the deadly infection that emer...
LISBON. Investment raised through golden visas almost tripled (192 percent) in May, compared to the same month of 2019, to €146 million, according to statistics from the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF). Last month, the total investment resulting from the granting of Residence Authorisation for Investmen...
. LUSA The country continues to open more and more doors. The third phase of the deconfinition plan due to the covid-19 pandemic kicks off this Monday, with the end of the "civic duty of recollection" and the reopening of shopping centers, theaters, cinemas, gyms, swimming pools, Citizen Shops and pre-school edu...
Special measures for the region of Lisbon and the Tagus Valley are due to the significant increase in the number of coronavirus cases in recent days. Shopping centers and restaurants in mainland Portugal reopen this Monday with new operating conditions, with the exception of shopping centers in the Lisbon Metro...