Portugal’s Directorate-General of Health (DGS) has issued new guidance on “contact procedures” following the hantavirus outbreak linked to the cruise ship MV Hondius, which has been regarded by clinicians as being of low-risk in regards to its ability to spread.
The leader of the populist right-wing Chega party, André Ventura, has argued that the process to elect new judges to Portugal’s Constitucional Court “must begin immediately, without further delay”.
Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler, 74, remains hospitalised at Hospital de Faro in the Algarve, where she is in an induced coma with doctors describing her condition as critical, and her prognosis guarded.
A couple were killed in a motorcycle accident in Santa Bárbara de Nexe, in the Algarve, during the early hours of Sunday, 10th May. Frederico Fernandes, 42, and Neuza Afonso, 45, leave behind two children.
Emergency services were called to a fire at 6:45am Monday, 11th May, after flames broke out in a wooden annex attached to a restaurant at a hotel in the Algarve, located at Salgados Beach, in Guia, Albufeira municipality,
Kevin Goff was fewer than six weeks away from completing the five-year period required to apply for Portuguese citizenship when the new Nationality Law was given the thumbs-up. Overnight, a goal he believed was within reach turned into an eight-year wait, according to a report in the Expresso newspaper.
Around 50 drivers operating tourist entertainment vehicles, including jeeps, tuk-tuks and adapted cars, gathered today outside Sintra Town Hall to protest against new traffic restrictions affecting their activity, announcing plans to file an injunction to halt the measures.
The demonstration, organised by the National Association of Tourist Entertainment Drivers (ANCAT), marks the second protest held in the historic town of Sintra since revised parking regulations came into force on 1st April.
By 5pm, roughly 50 tourism operators had assembled outside the Paços do Concelho municipal building, criticising what they described as a lack of dialogue from the local authority and voicing concern about the future of their sector.
Portugal’s largest trade union confederation, the CGTP, has criticised the country’s growing economic dependence on tourism, warning that Portugal has lost much of its national productive capacity.
