New Year’s Eve effectively cancelled // Tens of thousands to be vaccinated by the end of January

Portuguese news in English on December 18, 2020.

By the numbers

Fewer covid-19 patients have died today than any day since December 9. Case numbers are still dropping but, as you’ll see below, not as fast as the government had predicted. The number of people in hospital has also fallen consistently almost all week and there are fewer covid-19 patients in intensive care than any other day since mid-Nove…