Omicron, boosters and jabs for kids // How Portugal is holding up to latest Covid-19 wave

Portuguese news in English on Sunday, December 12, 2021.

By the numbers

Case numbers are still surging but they’re not spiralling out of control with an exponential increase. Deaths, too, are clearly on the increase but we’re still faring much better than this time last year, when we were averaging 78 deaths a day, as opposed to 17. It’s a similar story in hospitals, where there are 964 Covid-19 patients and 1…