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.
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Portugal curbs travel, extends lockdown in face of world s worst COVID-19 surge
Medical personnel work inside a COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit at the military hospital in Lisbon, Wednesday, Jan 27, 2021. (Photo: AP/Armando Franca)
28 Jan 2021 11:19PM (Updated:
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LISBON: Portugal extended a nationwide lockdown until mid-February and announced curbs on international travel on Thursday (Jan 28), as Prime Minister Antonio Costa accepted blame for the world s worst coronavirus surge, with hospitals on the verge of being overrun.
With a population of 10 million, Portugal reported a record 303 COVID-19 deaths and 16,432 new cases on Thursday, and now has the world s highest per capita seven-day averages of both new cases and deaths.
Portugal to reintroduce border controls with Spain as COVID-19 cases surge Reuters 1/28/2021
LISBON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Portugal s government announced on Thursday it would reintroduce controls along its 1,200-km (750-mile) border with Spain as authorities scramble to control a surge in coronavirus infections and deaths.
Cabinet Affairs Minister Mariana Vieira da Silva also said Portuguese nationals would be banned from travelling to other countries by air, land or sea over the next 15 days, confirming an earlier announcement by the interior minister. (Reporting by Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves Editing by Frances Kerry)
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LISBON (Reuters) - Clubbers in Portugal eager to shake off the coronavirus blues will have to wait a little longer to dance the night away, as nightclubs were given the green light to reopen from Saturday but with early closing and no dancefloors allowed.
FILE PHOTO: A worker carries a ladder, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Lisbon, Portugal June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante/File Photo
The Portuguese government announced on Thursday that bars and nightclubs can reopen if they wish, but following the same rules applied to coffee shops and bakeries. They will have to shut by 8 p.m. in Lisbon and 1 a.m. elsewhere in the country.