Portugal extends lockdown, limits travel as Covid deaths soar Issued on: 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.