New national lockdown ‘probable’, PM says // Weekend travel ban for whole country, curfew for most
Portuguese news in English, on Friday, January 8, 2021.
By the numbers
Two numbers jump straight out at us today. Yesterday (9927) was the second worst day we’ve seen for new confirmed cases, beaten only by Wednesday (10,027). As respected epidemiologist Henrique Barros tells Público, we still don’t know if this is a ricochet or a trend that’s here to stay. But the Directorate-General of Health has confirmed …
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