There was no police presence either needed or visible at the passionate but well-behaved demonstration that took place yesterday morning, 18th July 2021, on the dam wall of the Santa Clara Barragem in the Lower Alentejo.
Over 1,000 lts of water per second are being pumped out of Santa Clara lake, 24/7, over 90% going to intensive agriculture owned by foreign berry growers, 3% to clean a mine and 6% to locals, who are starting to have their water restricted and in some cases cut off.
In an open letter, released today, doctors and pharmacists have spoken out against taking "extraordinary containment measures" to combat the pandemic, warning that they produce "more serious" effects than covid-19 itself.
The Judiciary Police (PJ) detained in Albufeira two men suspected of defrauding hundreds of people with the fictitious resale of holiday weeks in the Algarve.
Portugal registered more than 58,000 new cases of infection in the last month, a period in which admissions to intensive care increased by 122%, but with the number of deaths having only increased by 0.8%.
The Portuguese biotechnology company Immunethep announced yesterday that non-clinical trials of its vaccine against the Coronavirus have ended and have shown “high safety and efficacy” against a lethal infection by SARS-CoV-2.
At a presentation of the “Reactivate tourism. Build the future” programme in Ponta Delgada, the president of Portugal’s tourist board, Luís Araújo has said that tourism in Portugal should reach pre-pandemic levels of 2019 by 2023.
An international tobacco smuggling network in Portugal and Spain was finally dismantled yesterday by the GNR, with 23 people suspected of being involved.
