Portugal prepares for child vaccination, Ventura condemned and other TSF highlights
The Minister of Health, Marta Temido, will be the head of the PS list according to the January legislative specifications for the Coimbra constituency. Marta Temido is back as a candidate in Coimbra, after 2019 she was elected by the district.
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The Secretary of State for Health, António de Lacerda Sales, said this Monday that the Government is prepared, “from the point of view of the telephone”, for the vaccination of children from five to 11 years old. Tiago Brandão Rodrigues, Minister of Education, calls for “vaccination to take place quickly and to a great extent”. The Executive is just waiting for the green light from the Technical Commission on Vaccination.
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“We are ready.” Government reiterates that it wants to vaccinate children from five to 11 years old
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Minister of Education wants children’s vaccination to be quick and extensive
From vaccination to football, but still in the pandemic: Pepê, FC Porto winger, is infected with Covid-19. The announcement was made by Sérgio Conceição at the press conference previewing the last game of the group stage of the Champions League. Pepê will miss this Wednesday’s game against Atletico Madrid.
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The Central Administrative Court of the South revoked the sanction of five interdiction games against Benfica, in support of illegal groups. The decision was based on changing the Disciplinary Regulation of the Portuguese Professional Football League for this season.
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The case of a worker being run over by a worker on the A6 by the car where Eduardo Cabrita was following still makes a lot of paint flow. The victim’s family lawyer wants the former Home Affairs minister to assume “criminal responsibility” as it is “ethically intolerable” for the former ruler not to do so. On the other hand, the lawyer for the driver of Cabrita also admits the opening of the investigation of the case for “incongruity of the investigation”.
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Victim’s family lawyer wants Cabrita to assume “criminal responsibility”
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Cabrita’s driver’s lawyer admits opening a statement due to “incongruences of the investigation”
A working group of the United Nations considers that, in Portugal, there is a “denial of racism” and that the “romanticization of the colonialist past” continues. The experts have been in Portugal since November 29 to assess the protection of the rights of Afro-descendants in the country.
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At the end of the day, André Ventura and Chega saw the conviction for racial segregation confirmed by the Supreme Court of Justice. At issue are the words uttered by the Chega deputy in the debate for presidential changes with Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, in which he called a family residing in the neighborhood of Jamaica “bandits”.