What Portugal searched for on 15 September 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 19:20: mpox (20K+), avião (10K+), nazaré (5K+), tsf rádio notícias (5K+), ferrovia (2K+), volvo xc60 (2K+).

• mpox20K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  On 14 September the World Health Organization reported that Portugal had recorded 66 cases of clade Ib mpox (the new name for monkeypox) in six weeks, and some of those infected had neither travelled nor been in contact with travellers. This is what is known as local transmission. In Europe, only Spain (241 cases) and France (173) have more.

  The virus spreads through close physical contact: through rashes and sores on the skin, body fluids, and shared bedding and towels. It starts with a fever, a severe headache, muscle and back pain, weakness and swollen lymph nodes; the rash appears later.

  If this sounds like you, don't go and sit in a waiting room. Call SNS 24 on 808 24 24 24 first: they will tell you where to go and whether you need a test. The mpox vaccine is not part of the national vaccination schedule; it is given to people who need it for medical reasons. What the schedule offers free of charge and what you have to pay for is covered in our guide Vaccinations for adults in Portugal.

  Source: rr.pt

  

• ferrovia2K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  Ferrovia means railway, and the talk about it now centres on the Porto–Lisbon high-speed line: the first section is under construction, and tenders are being launched for the next ones.

  What matters for readers is not the debate but land and timetables. Near Aveiro, works begin at the end of September, and about five hundred plots are due to be expropriated: anyone with a house, a vegetable garden or a shed there will find out from an official notice, not from the newspaper.

  What exactly is happening, which freguesias are affected and what landowners are doing, we covered today in the press section: Works begin on the high-speed line near Aveiro.

  

• volvo xc602K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  The Volvo XC60 is an ordinary family car, and there are plenty of them on the roads here. We don't know why people started searching for it today: we found nothing new that day from either the manufacturer or the authorities.

  But this model raises something every car owner in Portugal should know. Since 1 March 2026, a car fails its MOT if a recall has been issued for it — that is, the manufacturer has called it back to a garage to fix a defect of its own making — and the owner has not had the work done. This now counts as a major fault, and the car will not pass until it is repaired. According to IMT, about eighty cars a day fail for this reason.

  You can check your own car in advance, free of charge: on recall.motordata.pt, a site run by IMT, the car dealers' association ACAP and the Direção-Geral do Consumidor, you enter the registration number or VIN. Recall repairs at an authorised garage are free of charge. Volvo has issued recalls on XC60s of various years, for both the brakes and the rear-view camera — but check using your own car's registration, not the news.

  Source: deco.proteste.pt

  

• avião10K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  On the morning of 14 September a light aircraft crashed in São Pedro do Sul, near Viseu: the engine failed, and the pilot tried to land on a road and hit a car. The pilot escaped with minor injuries, and no one in the car was hurt.

  Source: rr.pt

• nazaré5K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  People search for Nazaré even without a particular reason — because of the big waves and the pilgrimages — and the primary sources show no event in the past 24 hours, so we don't know why searches rose today. The local news for 15 September reports police searches in a fraud and money-laundering case.

• tsf rádio notícias5K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  TSF is a Portuguese news radio station; people were looking for where to listen to it. We found nothing in the primary sources that day that would explain the spike.

• ciclone extratropical2K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  The bad weather behind this search is not ours: this week's cyclones are passing north of the Iberian Peninsula, and almost no rain is expected in mainland Portugal from 14 to 21 September, apart from a little in the far north-west.

• ponte1K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  The Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon is fully closed overnight from Tuesday 15 to Wednesday 16 September, from 00:00 to 06:30, for a scheduled structural inspection — the tenth since the bridge opened. Traffic is diverted via the 25 de Abril Bridge.

  Source: lusoponte.pt

• baixa de lisboa1K+ searches
  Published 6 November 2026, 23:39

  Suspects in a shooting in Lisbon's Baixa have handed themselves in to the police. It is a criminal case and does not affect daily life in the city.

  Source: rr.pt