PM António Costa has been accused of ‘fraud’ in ‘liberating Portugal to close to the municipal elections’(taking place on September 26th).
The director of the National School of Public Health (ENSP), Carla Nunes, warns that the number of covid-19 cases will rise again in the coming weeks, with the return of children and young people to school.
Algarve surfer, Yolanda Hopkins, yesterday won the Miss Costa Nova Cup for the third year running, a notable event for the women's national ranking. The competition took place over the last two days, on the waves of Ílhavo, in Central Portugal.
Yesterday, the Portuguese government announced that passengers from Brazil and the United Kingdom arriving in Portugal will no longer be subject to quarantine, as part of the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Portuguese biotech company Immunethep was ready to proceed with the clinical trials of its vaccine against Covid-19 in September, but the wait for funding from the State has made it impossible to proceed with the process.
On Friday August 27th, AFPOP, Portugal’s largest Foreign Residents’ Association, presented an updated version of their Hospital Emergency Information leaflet to CHUA Directors Dr. Paulo Neves, Dra. Patrícia Rego and nursing Director Enfª Mariana Santos of the Algarve hospitals group CHUA (Centro Hospitalar Universitário do Algarve), which runs the region’s National Health Service hospitals.
The Municipality of Silves informs that, within the scope of the Contract for Control Devices and Loss Reduction in the Water Supply System, the water supply will be interrupted this afternoon, September 1st, between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm, affecting the following areas:
Fires in Portugal have already caused nearly 26,000 hectares of burnt area in 2021, according to provisional data available on the website of the Institute for the Conservation of Nature and Forests (ICNF), which reveals an increase of more than 60% in two weeks.
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