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'Great Lockdown' to cut GDP by 8%, and PM says restrictions shouldn't be eased before May

'Great Lockdown' to cut GDP by 8%, and PM says restrictions shouldn't be eased before May

English language coronavirus news in Portugal on April 14, 2020.

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We seem to be in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment. For the fourth day in a row, we have between 300-600 new confirmed cases and another 30-35 deaths. Hopefully those numbers start to fall soon. For some global context, Johns Hopkins’ excellent tracking tool shows Portugal with the 16th highest number of confirmed cases in the world. That’s just …

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