{"id":120351,"date":"2021-04-27T11:35:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120351"},"modified":"2021-04-27T11:35:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:35:40","slug":"covid-19-portugal-reports-no-deaths-in-past-day-first-time-since-august-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=120351","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Portugal reports no  deaths in past day, first time since August 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/976\/cpsprodpb\/E093\/production\/_118219475_hi066243253-1.jpg\" alt=\"A woman buys a coffee at the entrance of a partially opened cafe as required under Portugal's government plan to gradually lift a lockdown imposed in mid-January to tackle what was then the world's worst coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge, in Porto, Portugal March 15, 2021.\"\/><figcaption>Portugal began easing its lockdown in March<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>LISBON, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal reported no coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours for the first time in nearly nine months as the country emerges from a two-month lockdown, the health authority said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country has reported a total of 16,965 deaths since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and 834,638 infections, 196 more than reported the day before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last time Portugal reported no coronavirus-related deaths was on Aug&nbsp;3 last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The health authority highlighted that it remains in the green zone of the risk matrix, with a transmission risk below 1 and a national incidence rate of 70.4 cases of infection per 100,000 inhabitants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>About 20 per cent of Portugal&#8217;s 10 million people have now been inoculated with one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 7 per cent with two doses, while more than 90 per cent of&nbsp;people aged 80 or more &#8211; the group with the most deaths &#8211; have&nbsp;been vaccinated with at least one dose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal, which imposed a lockdown in January to curb what was then the world&#8217;s worst COVID-19 surge, started lifting restrictions in March, and has since reopened some schools, restaurant and cafe terraces, museums and hair salons. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISBON, April 26 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Portugal reported no coronavirus-related deaths in the last 24 hours for the first time in nearly nine months as the country emerges from a two-month lockdown, the health authority said. The country has reported a total of 16,965 deaths since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and 834,638 infections, 196 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":120353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/120353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}