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State of contingency continues // Migrants held in jails and barracks after SEF runs out of space

State of contingency continues // Migrants held in jails and barracks after SEF runs out of space

Portuguese news in English on September 25, 2020.

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Sep 25, 2020
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By the numbers

After 691 cases yesterday, today marks another “not since early April” record on the new cases front. By my count, it’s the fourth highest daily case count since the pandemic reached Portugal, although it’s likely many more cases were going undetected in the early days thanks to a lack of testing. Arguably more concerningly, there are 159 …

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