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Children With Long Covid Risk Losing Their Schooling Because No Service Takes Charge of Them, a Patients' Alliance Warns

The Aliança Millions Missing wants clinical guidelines, a minimum quota of SNS appointments and adjustments at school. Doctors say Portugal has no referral network and no count of cases.

11 October 2026

Courts

Ministério Público Charges Lar do Comércio in Matosinhos for the COVID-19 Deaths of 18 Residents — Six Years On, the Pandemic-Era Care-Home Accountability File Finally Reaches the Penal Code

Ministério Público charges Lar do Comércio in Matosinhos and its former leadership with propagation of contagious disease aggravated by the result — 18 deaths and 3 serious-injury counts from the April–May 2020 COVID outbreak that infected 109 of the lar's residents. Indictment filed 31 March 2026.

4 May 2026