Norma 004/2026, signed on 2 September, runs the campaign from 16 September to 31 March 2027 and drops the eligibility gap that left some babies uncovered. The catch-up for children born since 1 April closes on 30 October.
Caldas da Rainha disclosed on Thursday that pseudomonas was found in the water plant of the Hospital Termal Rainha D. Leonor, billed as the oldest working thermal hospital in the world. Treatments have been suspended for a week, with no reopening date.
Agudela, Cabo do Mundo, Matosinhos, Marreco, Memória and Quebrada are all flagged for microbiological contamination, with Foz do Lima and Vila Praia de Âncora making eight on the northern coast.
The regional health authority has identified norovirus in samples from São Miguel, eight days after we reported the Faial outbreak with its cause still unconfirmed. No evidence links the cases to the public water supply, and there have been no serious hospitalisations.
The Direção-Geral da Saúde gave the count to Lusa on Wednesday: nine cases notified through SINAVE between 1 January and 18 August. Three were imported, three began in Portugal, three are still being traced, and a single cluster of three was the only chain that formed.
A new DGS orientation signed by director-general Rita Sá Machado names Curry Cabral and São João as adult reference hospitals for suspect Ebola cases and Dona Estefânia for children, with INEM handling transport and INSA Ricardo Jorge confirming diagnoses.
INE's 28 May 2026 Tábua de Mortalidade prints Portuguese esperança de vida à nascença at 81.75 years for 2023-2025 — women at 84.21, men at 78.99, and the at-65 figure at 20.19 years (women 21.55, men 18.43), with falling mortality in the 60+ bracket driving the triennium step up.
