State of emergency could be extended until March, new restrictions possible // Appeals to take lockdown seriously as hospitals struggle

Portuguese news in English on January 18, 2020.

By the numbers

We seem to have reached a bit of a plateau in terms of both case numbers and deaths over the past week but it’s not a particularly good plateau: roughly 10,000 new cases a day and 150 deaths. On top of that, one health expert fears the current case numbers are a “false ceiling”, caused by testing numbers hitting their limits and not a true…