Mortality in Portugal was once again higher than expected this December, reveals the newspaper Public. After two periods with excess mortality in 2025, at the beginning of the year and in the hottest weeks of summer, the period between December 6th and 15th recorded 600 deaths above normal for this time of year. According to data from the Death Certificate Information System (SICO), all excess mortality occurs above 70 years of age, and the North, Center and Alentejo regions are the most affected, although in Lisbon and Vale do Tejo and in the Algarve mortality is also higher than expected for this time of year.
The numbers follow the drop in temperatures and the early emergence of the flu, in an aging country with energy poverty. “Considering the days of excess mortality in January, summer and the current moment in December, there are 64 days (out of a total of 350, until December 17) in 2025 with excess mortality”, write the Public.
News Journal gives photographic prominence to the news of the Portuguese man who killed a former colleague and two students at Brown University, in the United States, but the headline goes to the record number of fines for lack of microchips in pets, which has been mandatory since 2019 for dogs, cats and ferrets. According to JN, By the end of September, two thousand fines had been imposed by the GNR for the absence of the device.
The Morning Beltin this edition of Saturday, the 20th, highlights the homicides in the USA by the Portuguese Cláudio Neves Valente. The special envoy to Boston, Tânia Laranjo, concludes that the physicist he killed his former colleague at Instituto Superior Técnico, Nuno Loureiro, out of “resentment” for his success.
Out there, this case is also in the cover of The New York Times this Saturday. The North American daily highlights the post on the Reddit network that alerted investigators to a gray Nissan car, which was the vehicle rented by Cláudio Neves Valente. This information was decisive in identifying the perpetrator of the deaths, said the Rhode Island prosecutor, Peter F. Neronha, underlines the newspaper.
The British The Guardian highlights the growing inactivity among young people, who neither study nor work, and the pressure that this situation is putting on public accounts. The minimum wage for young people will have to be reviewed in light of what experts already admit is “a lost generation” for the job market. The former Secretary of Health, Alan Milburn, in an interview with the British newspaper warns of this situation.