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9h55 – Book of the Portuguese photographic project “Everyday covid” presented today
The images captured by 87 Portuguese photographers and photojournalists in a year marked by the covid-19 pandemic, within the scope of the “Everyday Covid” project, were gathered in a book, “a document for future memory”, which is presented today in Lisbon.
“Everyday Covid – Photographic diaries in a state of emergency” is defined as “a document for future memory”, it is the materialization of a project that started in March this year with a page on the social network Instagram, everydaycovid, started by photojournalists Gonçalo Borges Dias and Miguel A. Lopes.
The page worked, between March 16 and June 13, as a visual diary. Over three months, daily, images related to the covid-19 pandemic were being shared, “structured in various formats: reportage, documentary, portrait of society and homemade diaries”, captured by journalists and photojournalists, in Portugal and in Macau .
The images captured by 87 Portuguese photographers and photojournalists in a year marked by the covid-19 pandemic, within the scope of the “Everyday Covid” project, were gathered in a book, “a document for future memory”, which is presented today in Lisbon.
“Everyday Covid – Photographic diaries in a state of emergency” is defined as “a document for future memory”, it is the materialization of a project that started in March this year with a page on the social network Instagram, everydaycovid, started by photojournalists Gonçalo Borges Dias and Miguel A. Lopes.
The page worked, between March 16 and June 13, as a visual diary. Over three months, daily, images related to the covid-19 pandemic were being shared, “structured in various formats: reportage, documentary, portrait of society and homemade diaries”, captured by journalists and photojournalists, in Portugal and in Macau .
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9:41 am – Distributors call on the Government to withdraw trade restriction measures
Restriction measures imposed on trade due to the pandemic are causing “harmful damage” to the sector and to national production, the Portuguese Association of Distribution Companies (APED) warned today, calling on the Government to withdraw them.
“The successive restrictive measures imposed on the retail sector are causing harmful damage to the sector and to national production, with losses estimated at tens of millions of euros and a considerable impact on the stability of more than 100,000 jobs, both in food retail and retail. specialist ”, warns the association in a statement.
In view of this situation, APED calls on the Government to “remove measures without any practical effect in the defense of public health, in particular the reduction of opening hours at the weekend, the ratio of number of people allowed in stores and prohibition of sale of alcohol from 20:00 ”.
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9:33 am – Venezuela with 355 new cases and five deaths
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the country has recorded a total of 108,480 infected and 965 dead.
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9h20 – One in four Portuguese want to wait until they decide to get vaccinated
The poll of the Catholic University for RTP shows that only 61% want to take the vaccine as soon as they are called.
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After nine months of pandemic, the vast majority of Portuguese people agree with the current state of emergency and with the measures planned for Christmas and New Year.
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9h10 – Von der Leyen wants 27 to start eradicating the virus on the same day
The President of the European Commission today called on the European Union to start “as soon as possible” a vaccination campaign against Covid-19, to be launched simultaneously in the 27 Member States, to ensure the eradication of the “horrible virus”.
In a debate in the European Parliament on last week’s EU leaders’ summit, Ursula von der Leyen, underlined that “no one should think that they are safe [da pandemia], not when more than 3,000 Europeans die of covid-19 every day “, but pointed out that” finally there is good news “with the development of vaccines, the first of which should be approved early next week.
Reiterating that “the European Commission has negotiated the widest portfolio of vaccine candidates”, no less than six, von der Leyen pointed out that the first vaccine should be authorized within a few days, after the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has announced the day before it anticipated the meeting to make a decision on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to December 21, a week earlier than anticipated.
“Vaccination can thus begin immediately, and other [vacinas] will follow in the New Year. And, in total, we bought more than enough doses for everyone in Europe, and we will still be in a position to support our neighbors and partners in the world, so that no one is left behind “, said the president of the community executive.
Von der Leyen stressed that “to reach the end of the pandemic, however, it is necessary that 70% of the population be vaccinated”, which he admitted to be a “gigantic mission”.
“Therefore, let us start vaccination as soon as possible, together, at 27, starting on the same day. Let us begin the eradication of this horrible virus together and together,” he said.
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9:00 am – Christmas in Portugal with fewer migrants due to restrictions, fear and crisis
The Secretary of State for Portuguese Communities, Berta Nunes, believes that Portugal will have fewer emigrants this Christmas because of restrictions and fear of contagion, but also due to the economic difficulties that many are experiencing as a result of the pandemic.
“Fewer people will come, this is the indication we have,” said Berta Nunes in an interview with the Lusa agency, noting that this conviction is not, at all, advice to emigrants and Portuguese communities not to spend this season in their homeland.
“The situation is worse. There are more restrictions in all countries, many more cases of infection, many more dead, more hospitalizations, more people in intensive care and everyone is attentive, they hear the news, they know that the situation is worse, despite, at least in Portugal, we are no longer increasing the number of cases ”, he said.
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8h52 – Chinese group Fosun buys 100 million vaccines from the Pfizer-BioNTech consortium
The Chinese group Fosun, which owns several companies in Portugal, today announced an agreement with BioNTech to purchase 100 million doses of the vaccine for covid-19, developed by the German company in conjunction with the North American company Pfizer.
In a note sent to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Fosun explained that the deal is still pending authorization from China to market that vaccine.
The first part of the agreement provides for the sale of 50 million doses, for which a payment equivalent to 125 million euros will be made, until 30 December. The rest will be paid when the Chinese authorities give the green light to market the vaccine in the country.
The Chinese company will keep 65% of the gross annual revenues obtained from the vaccine commercialization in China. BioNTech takes the remaining 35%.
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8:41 am – Russia is testing less
Russia performed about 10 percent fewer tests on Covid-19 compared to the previous month, despite the increase in infections, Reuters said.
Although officials announced an increase in testing on November 16, the number performed in the first half of December fell 825,000, down 11 percent, compared with the first half of November.
Today, the country reported 26,509 new cases of infection and 596 more deaths.
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8:30 am – China adds 12 imported cases
The China Health Commission announced today that it has identified 12 cases of covid-19 in the past 24 hours, all from abroad.
The imported cases were diagnosed in the municipalities of Shanghai (east), Beijing (north) and Tianjin (north) and in the provinces of Yunnan (southwest), Fujian (east), Guangdong (southeast) and Shandong (northeast).
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8:22 am – With 952 deaths, Germany breaks new daily record
Germany, which entered a new confinement on Wednesday to try to stop the Covid-19 contagions, recorded a new daily death record. 952 in 24 hours.
The biggest daily increase had been registered on Friday, with 598 dead.
The Robert Koch Institute estimates the number of infected people at 1,379,238, an increase of 23,427 in the last 24 hours.
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8:10 am – Mexico with 801 dead and more than 11,000 cases in 24 hours
Mexico counted 801 deaths from covid-19 and 11,228 cases of the disease in the past 24 hours, health officials said on Tuesday.
The country has recorded 115,099 deaths and 1,267,202 contagions since the pandemic began last February.
In presenting the daily technical report, the Secretariat of Health recognized that the number of estimated cases is 1,442,136, if those that are awaiting a confirmation test are considered.
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8:00 am – Unilabs today launches digital ‘green’ solution for screening tests
Unilabs, a provider of clinical diagnostics, today launched a digital ‘green way’ solution for covid-19 screening tests, developed in partnership with Cristiano Ronaldo’s 7egend, which allows you to make an appointment via ‘smartphone’ or computer.
“The solution will be available in all Unilabs ‘drive-thru’ from North to South of the country”, the company says.
For this purpose, when booking the test, on the Unilabs website, in addition to personal data, users indicate their vehicle registration number, choose the day, time and drive-thru where they intend to take the test, and may also make the payment.
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7:26 am – State of play
This Wednesday, the President of the Republic receives parties with parliamentary seats. Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa wants to hear from party leaders about the renewal of the state of emergency.
The first training to be received is the Liberal Initiative, at 11 am. The meetings end with the PS hearing at 7:30 pm.
Vaccination
The Directorate-General for Health admits that vaccination against Covid-19 may begin later this year, if approved by the European Medicines Agency.
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An eight-day anticipation that, assures the deputy director-general of Health, will only happen if all European standards are safeguarded.
The picture in Portugal
84 more people died with Covid-19 in Portugal, according to the latest epidemiological bulletin, known early Tuesday afternoon. The country has accumulated 5733 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic.
2638 new cases of infection with the new coronavirus were confirmed.
The number of hospitalized patients dropped to 3206. In intensive care, there are fewer seven patients, out of a total of 506.
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DGS came yesterday to appeal to the Portuguese to spend Christmas with the household alone.
The international framework
The Covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,621,397 deaths resulting from more than 72.7 million cases of infection, according to the balance sheet which is constantly being updated by the agency France Presse.
Restrictive measures for air traffic outside the European Union and the Schengen area have been extended. The restrictions last until the end of the year.
At issue is the growth in the number of contagion cases and the epidemiological evolution.
Air traffic is limited to “essential travel” and subject to prior Covid-19 negative testing. The diagnosis must be made within 72 hours prior to departure.
Covid-19 is the disease caused by a new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, identified in late December 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China.
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