Currently, a high-risk contact with an infected person still requires 14 days of quarantine, vaccinated or not, just as at the beginning of the pandemic. However, experts met last week and an alternative has been proposed and already delivered to the General Directorate of Health.
Placed away from home, Portuguese teachers have had three weeks to change their lives, many will be forced to leave their families and say that with such low wages and such high incomes they will have to “pay to be able to work”.
More than 100,000 more people were vaccinated in Portugal against Covid-19 this weekend, of which more than 80,000 are young people between 12 and 17 years old, according to official data.
The four Portuguese soldiers assigned to Kabul are on their way back to Portugal and should arrive in Madrid this afternoon. Arrival is scheduled for 15:45 at the Torrejón military base in Madrid.
The general director of Health (DGS), Graça Freitas, has announced that the administration of a third dose of vaccine against Covid-19 may be given to two different groups of the population.
The Portuguese government issued an order prohibiting the sale or providing of the so-called fast food and others classified as "products harmful to health", in public schools.
This afternoon, SITEU - the Independent Union of All Nurses will take to some of the main beaches of the Algarve, with the nurses of the Hospital de Faro asking to be excused from responsibility due to the lack of working conditions and staff shortages.
The leader of the Left Block (Bloco de Esquerda) this weekend accused entities in Olhão of continuing to send untreated sewage to the Ria Formosa, despite the recent inauguration of a Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP).
