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Covid-19 outbreak highlights complaints of slavery, human trafficking, worker exploitation // Portugal testing ‘covid passports’ this month

Covid-19 outbreak highlights complaints of slavery, human trafficking, worker exploitation // Portugal testing ‘covid passports’ this month

Portuguese news in English on Sunday, May 9, 2021.

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By the numbers

Things are still looking pretty good. Case numbers (on a two-week average) haven’t been this low since September and you have to go all the way back to the start of the pandemic for a fortnight with fewer deaths. That’s the lowest death rate in the European Union and the second lowest for cases per population, according to European Centre …

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