Portugal's public debt ratio was 130.5% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the third quarter of last year, the third highest in the European Union (EU) and above that of the Euro-Zone (97.7%) and the 27 as a whole (90.1%). Eurostat, the EU's statistical office, published the data this Friday...
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Portugal wants to treat covid-19 as a common flu
Covid-19 should start to be seen as a common flu in Portugal, as is already happening in Spain, some experts suggest. The ways of contraction of the virus and its behavior in the human organism are already known worldwide and this is possible to predict, after two years in...
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Omicron variant already accounts for 93.2% infections in Portugal
The Ómicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is already responsible for 93.2% of infections in Portugal, as a result of a "rapid growth" in December. According to the estimate made this Tuesday by INSA, by January 03, Ómicron had already reached a frequency of 89.6% of the cases of infections recorded in that country. "Since December 06, it has been...
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Domestic poultry farmers turn to fertile eggs from Europe to meet demand
The national poultry industry is forced to import fertile eggs from countries like Portugal, Spain and Turkey, when they used to acquire them in neighboring South Africa, which, in the meantime, reduced its production because of the covid-19 pandemic. According to national aviculturists, this change has as immediate consequences, the increase in price of the chicks and their late development,...
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Mobility among CPLP States: After all, only three countries have ratified the Agreement
After being reported in several media about the signing of the Mobility Agreement between the CPLP member countries, the executive secretariat of the CPLP, Zacarias da Costa, clarified that the agreement only applies to the three member states that have ratified it, namely Cape Verde, Sao Tome and Principe...
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Portugal joins the others and ratifies the CPLP Mobility Agreement
The agreement is extremely important at the economic level and for the free circulation of goods and services between the Portuguese-speaking Countries, CPLP. "Our borders are well established. Now what really matters is to open the doors that allow our people to do what they naturally do, which is to be able to circulate and...
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Portugal resumes commercial flights with Mozambique - Portuguese Minister
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Augusto Santos Silva, assured, this Friday, the country will suspend restrictions and commercial air links with Mozambique will resume soon, "soon after the completion of repatriation flights". In an interview with RTP, the official said that although the pandemic situation has forced...
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Portugal will no longer offer vaccines to Mozambique... on time
Mozambique will no longer receive 200,000 doses of vaccines against covid-19 promised by Portugal, according to an announcement by the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The donation was scheduled for tomorrow (Friday), but that European country has committed to do it at another date, depending on the existing doses in Mozambique. In a press release, the ministry...
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Covid-19: Flight from Mozambique brought three cases of Omicron to Portugal
The repatriation flight that took mostly Portuguese and Mozambican citizens from Maputo to Lisbon, last Saturday (4), had on board three cases of covid-19, related to the new variant Ómicron. Source from the National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), informed about covid-19 infections, this Monday, and hours later it was confirmed that it was...
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Portugal re-enters the US maximum risk list
Portugal has once again entered the list of maximum risk, level four, of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the USA, and is now a destination to avoid on any trip, having already been in this category in July of this year. Thus, the US government advises against any travel, which are most of the countries...