Portugals Bischöfe empört über Parlamentsbeschluss zur Sterbehilfe
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LISBON Portugal’s parliament voted on Friday to legalize euthanasia, with the country set to become the seventh in the world to allow terminally ill patients to seek assistance from a doctor to end their life.
People aged over 18 will be allowed to request assistance in dying if they are terminally ill and suffering from “lasting” and “unbearable” pain – unless they are deemed not to be mentally fit to make such a decision.
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The process will only be open to national citizens and legal residents in order to prevent people from traveling to Portugal to get medical help to end their life.
Portugal extends lockdown, limits travel as Covid deaths soar
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29/01/2021 - 14:32 Medical personnel work inside a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the Military Hospital in Lisbon, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. At the hospital, hundreds of troops have spent frantic weeks this month rushing to turn every available space into makeshift COVID-19 wards. AP - Armando Franca 3 min Portugal has extended its nationwide lockdown through to mid-February and further limited international travel after the country saw the world’s worst surge in the coronavirus. Advertising Read more
Portugal reported on Thursday a record 303 Covid-19 deaths and 16,432 new cases in a 24-hour period. With a population of just 10 million, this amounted to the largest number of infections and deaths relative to its population than any other country in the world.