Transport Secretary Grant Shapps announced yesterday that from 4am on February 11th, the UK will open for travel, with all restrictions removed for eligible vaccinated arrivals.

The Government has extended the post-payment period for electronic tolls from the current 5 to 15 working days, in order to facilitate “the timely realisation of payments by users.”

The director of WHO Europe, Hans Kluge, said yesterday that the Ómicron variant, which is likely to infect 60% of Europeans by March, started a new phase of the covid-19 pandemic in Europe that could bring it to an end.

Portugal will have plenty of national post-election problems to deal with in the weeks and months ahead, but one of its wider worries that should not be underestimated is the tension between the West and Russia over Ukraine.

At the signing ceremony in the Salão Nobre dos Paços do Concelho, 33 contracts with private social solidarity institutions and social associations were signed, with the municipality allocating a total amount of 1,185,000 euros, for the development of all the entities activities this year.

The Portimão GNR found the 82-year-old man around 2.6 kilometres from his home in Monchique, 24 hours after he was reported missing.

It all started with a post 'Figs on the Funcho' owners Graham and Cheryl Smith saw on social media, inviting applicants who have left their homeland in favour of a new start in a sunny location to apply for the chance of appearing in series 7 of the TV show, “A New Life in the Sun”! The TV program follows the highs and lows of couples setting up a business in a foreign country.

The DGS have reported that Portugal recorded a total of 52,549 new cases of Covid-19 and 33 deaths yesterday, January 19th. This is the highest level since the  beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.