COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal

On 2 March 2020, the virus was confirmed to have reached the country when it was reported that two men, a 60-year-old doctor who travelled to the north of Italy on vacation and a 33-year-old man working in Spain, tested positive for COVID-19.

[6] On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.

[39] However, due to the severity of the pandemic a separate website was created dedicated specifically to coronavirus information and updates under the Portuguese Ministry of Health.

[41] The Ministry of Health provides a web page with information for the public about different areas,[42] including brochures, orientation and guidance for different activity sectors, how to deal with self-isolation, and quarantine games for children.

[50] On April 30, 2020, the Portuguese Ministers' Council approved a plan to start releasing the country from COVID-19 containment measures and cancel the State of Emergency.

[52][53] A study by the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto (FPCEUP) aimed at "assessing the psychological health and social support networks" of LGBT+ young people who live with their parental figures during the COVID-19 pandemic concluded, based on a survey of 632 young LGBT+ people, who most did not feel comfortable in their families during confinement.

[54] This study, with a longitudinal and intercultural character, also concluded that six out of 10 participants considered that the pandemic had "greatly" affected their lives.

[54] "As for the present study, if for some young people the covid-19 pandemic had no impact on their social support networks, an important proportion felt quite isolated from their friends", says FPCEUP.

[54] Portugal announced that it would distribute 5% of its vaccine doses to a group of former colonies in Africa and to the nation of East Timor.

[70] According to the Portuguese mortality surveillance (EVM[71]), the following chart presents the total number of deaths per day in Portugal for the years 2009–2020 (updated on 10 June).

Daily cases of COVID-19 per region in Portugal. The lines are smoothed for better visualisation and are coloured according to each region of Portugal. The negative values are not shown here for better visualisation.
Daily deaths from COVID-19 per region in Portugal. The lines are smoothed for better visualisation and are coloured according to each region of Portugal. The negative values are not shown here for better visualisation.
The total number of COVID-19 cases per municipality for those municipalities with more than 1000 confirmed cases. The legend shows which municipality corresponds to which coloured line in the graph and the vertical black line denotes the 4th of May 2020 as the end of the quarantine state.
The total number of deaths per day in Portugal for various years including all ages. [ 72 ]
Total number of deaths per day for Portugal per age group for the year 2019.
Total number of deaths per day for Portugal per age group for the year 2020.