Portugal begins the first day of a new lockdown, with businesses closed and most people confined to their homes, although parents were able to take their children to school.

In the UEFA Nations League, France have booked their place in the final four.

Those travelling to the UK from Europe remain confused as Wales and Scotland slapped a 14-day quarantine on arrivals from Portugal but England and Northern Ireland held back from restrictions.

Portugal is to be added to the UK’s travel corridor list, meaning arrivals from the country will no longer have to quarantine, but Croatia and Trinidad and Tobago are being removed.

Two people are killed and seven seriously injured when a high-speed train collided with a railway maintenance vehicle in central Portugal.

Cristiano Ronaldo and soccer agent Jorge Mendes joined forces on Tuesday to donate lifesaving equipment to Portuguese hospitals struggling to treat patients with coronavirus.

Portugal's health authority announced on Friday that from next week anyone entering the country from abroad must self-quarantine for 14 days as its number of confirmed coronavirus cases surpassed the 1,000 mark.

The EU’s disease prevention agency raises the risk level of the novel coronavirus from “moderate to high” for Europeans.

Sixteen flights to and from Lisbon airport have been cancelled this weekend as a result of a three-day strike by airport workers.

Workers for airport handling company Portway started a three-day strike Friday.