State of emergency renewed with border controls and some flight bans // School is back online from February 8

Portuguese news in English on January 29, 2021.

By the numbers

Yesterday was another new record for covid-19 deaths, 303, as new daily cases sat around 15,000–17,000. The Lisbon and Tejo Valley region has emerged as the clear epicentre of the pandemic in Portugal, with more than twice as many cases as the North and four times more than the Centre yesterday. Citing figures from the Doctor Ricardo Jorge…