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Last Updated: Hospitals In Lisbon Under Pressure With Surge In Virus Day after day ambulances waiting to deliver COVID-19 patients queue outside hospital emergency departments in Portugal. Day after day ambulances waiting to deliver COVID-19 patients queue outside hospital emergency departments in Portugal. In the late hours of Thursday around 40 ambulances were in line waiting for an emergency service triage at the Santa Maria Hospital in Lisbon, one of the hospitals most affected by the rapid rise in virus cases. The number of COVID-19 hospitalizations and patients in intensive care co...

Fascist vote surges as conservatives win Portuguese presidential election Sunday’s presidential election in Portugal saw a victory for right-wing incumbent Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and a surge in votes for the fascistic Chega (Enough) party. The election took place as coronavirus deaths continue to explode in Portugal. Deaths have more than doubled since the beginning of the year to a record of 275 on Sunday, bringing the total toll to 10,194 in this country of just 10.2 million people. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (Wikimedia Commons/Agência Lusa) Fear of the virus and the absence of postal or e...

Ambulances waiting to deliver COVID-19 patients queued outside hospital emergency departments on Friday as Portugal's COVID-19 surge continued unabated, adding a new record of daily deaths for the fifth day in a row

Posted on 21 January 2021. Portugal is registering the world’s highest COVID’19 infections and death rates due to the faster-spreading of a more contagious variant form of the virus first detected in Britain. The country has now the highest seven-day average rate in the world of new cases per 100,000 population and the second-highest rate of new deaths after the United Kingdom, according to data by Johns Hopkins University. Portugal also has the highest number of coronavirus cases in Europe per capita over the last seven days, according to a tracking website supported by Oxford Universit...

LISBON (Reuters) - Portugal's public health system is on the verge of collapsing as hospitals in the areas worst-affected by a worrying surge in coronavirus cases are quickly running out of intensive care beds to treat COVID-19 patients.