‘Stay home’: Government tightens weekend curfew // State of emergency declared in 77 more councils, several in Algarve

Portuguese news in English on November 13, 2020.

By the numbers

Portugal has passed 200,000 total confirmed covid-19 cases, half of which were recorded in just the past month. Público notes it took 231 days for the country to record its first 100,000 infections but just 26 for the next 100. Even so, while not exactly improving, it is deteriorating less quickly. The most recent R(t) estimate is 1.11, wh…