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March 31, 2020

Portugal gives migrants and asylum-seekers full citizenship rights during COVID-19 outbreak

The Government has determined that all immigrants with pending residence permit applications with the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) are for now to be given access to the same rights as all other citizens, including social benefits. The new measure…
March 31, 2020

Prime-minister Costa anticipates that, with or without a state of emergency, COVID-19 measures will be prolonged

Prime-Minister António Costa said today that, with or without a state of emergency and despite some “success in lowering the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic”, it will be necessary to prolong the preventative measures that have been adopted to date….
March 30, 2020

The COVID-19 test made-in-Portugal that from today will be applied throughout the country

As of this Monday, several locations throughout Portugal will be able to receive essential preventive testing kits for use on the elderly and employees, as part of a “complicated logistical operation”, the Minister of Labour, Solidarity and Social Security, Ana…
March 30, 2020

EasyJet grounds entire aircraft fleet following drop in demand

The airline EasyJet announced today that it is leaving its entire fleet of planes on the ground until further notice due to the collapse in demand, because of the Covid-19 pandemic. In a statement, the airline, based in London, explains…
March 30, 2020

Group of Portuguese Immigration Officers arrested on suspicion of killing Ukrainian illegal immigrant

Police said on Monday they had detained three immigration officers on suspicion of killing a 40-year-old Ukrainian man who attempted to enter Portugal illegally through Lisbon’s airport earlier this month. In a statement, the national criminal investigation police agency, the…
March 30, 2020

GNR assaulted with beer bottle whilst trying to stop BBQ in Carvoeiro

A GNR officer was attacked this past weekend, on Saturday March 28, with a bottle to the head while trying to interrupt a party in Carvoeiro, in the municipality of Lagoa, taking place despite the state of emergency imposed by…
March 30, 2020

City of Porto rejects lockdown plan as ‘useless’

Porto has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic but the biggest city in northern Portugal on Monday refused to heed official calls for the 200,000-plus population to be put under isolation and mocked a senior health chief. With 941…
March 30, 2020

Portugal grants migrants residency rights during pandemic

Undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers in Portugal have been granted the same rights as residents, including access to medical care, during a state of emergency to curb the spread of coronavirus. “This is not an automatic regularisation,” the border control…
March 27, 2020

Pharmacies assure that there is enough medication for everyone following media scaremongering

This morning national newspaper Correio da Manhã reported that there are pharmacies experiencing extreme medication shortages, to the point where insulin was being denied to diabetics. Pharmacies have denied this: “The supply of the country continues to be guaranteed”. “There…

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