Lisbon region with 69% of new cases, and more than 180,000 on Costa da Caparica beaches

English language coronavirus news in Portugal on May 25, 2020.

By the numbers

So I had to triple check this to make sure it wasn’t a typo. The number of people marked as cured more than doubled on Saturday, from 7705 to 17,549. Obviously almost 10,000 people didn’t recover from the coronavirus in one day. It turns out more than 9500 recoveries registered through the Tace Covid app hadn’t been reflected in the result…