The slow reopening begins but life is a long way from ‘normal’

English language coronavirus news in Portugal on May 4, 2020.

By the numbers

It was a very positive but slightly strange weekend for the statistics, as the number of confirmed cases (sort of) went down on Saturday. The health services discovered 422 cases in the North region had been counted twice and had to readjust the figures to take them into account. That meant Saturday’s report featured less cases than Friday…