What Portugal searched for on 18 October 2026

Most searched in the 24 hours to 15:20: onda de calor (20K+), manifestação lisboa (5K+), vento (5K+), síndrome gripal (2K+), guarda nacional republicana (2K+), discoteca (2K+).

• manifestação lisboa · correio da manhã20K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  A CGTP march in Lisbon against the rising cost of living. On 17 October the CGTP trade union confederation marched from Cais do Sodré to Rossio. According to the Lusa news agency, tens of thousands of people turned out, demanding caps on rents and prices and a rise in the minimum wage to €1,110 (the draft 2027 budget sets it at €970). In the evening the housing movement set up a tent camp in Rossio and stayed there overnight.

  The protests will continue. On 14 November the Casa para Viver platform is calling demonstrations against housing costs across the country, and on 24 November, the day of the vote on the 2027 budget, the CGTP will hold a rally outside parliament in Lisbon.

  

• síndrome gripal2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Flu has arrived earlier than usual this year. According to the DGS (the Directorate-General of Health), in the week from 5 to 11 October SNS 24 received 73,135 calls, 3.3% more than the week before, including 12,658 calls about acute respiratory illness, up 19.6%. Hospital A&E departments are seeing more people with flu-like symptoms (síndrome gripal), above all children aged 5–⁠9 and adults aged 20–⁠59. The season has started earlier than in previous years, but so far it is milder than in 2019–⁠2020.

  This season flu jabs are being given from 30 September 2026 to 31 March 2027. They are free for people aged 60 and over, pregnant women, children aged 6 to 23 months and anyone with a chronic illness on the DGS list. People aged 60 to 84, and adults under 60 with one of these illnesses, can also get the jab free at a pharmacy taking part in the campaign — bring an identity document. Everyone else can buy the vaccine at a pharmacy with a prescription. So far about 9% of over-60s have been vaccinated.

  If you fall ill, call SNS 24 first (808 24 24 24): they will tell you whether to go to your health centre or a hospital A&E, or to stay at home. Who gets the jab free and where to go for it is covered in our guide Vaccinations for adults in Portugal.

  Source: observador.pt

  

• incêndio1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Wildfire risk is not over yet, even in October. For Sunday 18 October, IPMA (the weather service) gave the maximum danger level to one municipality — Vouzela in the district of Viseu — and "very high" to about 50 municipalities in eight districts: Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra, Viseu, Leiria, Santarém, Portalegre and Faro. Overnight, firefighters were called out to Paços de Ferreira near Porto and Vila Franca de Xira near Lisbon, among other places; there are no large fires.

  The danger level is calculated for each day and each municipality, based on temperature, humidity, wind and rainfall over the past 24 hours; you can check yours on the IPMA map. Until 31 October you may burn piles of cut branches and grass only with permission from the câmara (the municipal council), and on days of "very high" or maximum risk not at all. The same applies to lighting fires in the countryside.

  If you live in a house near woodland or with a plot of land, do not burn anything or cook over an open fire today: you could be fined. What else is banned on high-risk days and what to do if there is a fire nearby is covered in our guide Heatwaves and wildfires in Portugal: what to expect and what to do.

  Source: ipma.pt

  

• ana catarina mendes1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Ana Catarina Mendes, the former minister under whom AIMA was set up, told the Lusa news agency in an interview on 18 October that it is dangerous for decisions on removing foreigners to be back in the hands of the police. Since August 2025 expulsion cases have been handled and carried out by UNEF, the PSP's foreigners and borders unit. She recalled the death of Ukrainian Ihor Homeniuk at Lisbon airport in 2020 at the hands of officers of SEF, the former border service, and said she feared it could happen again.

  The interview does not change any rules: these are the views of a Socialist Party MEP, not a government decision. Residence permits, renewals and family reunification remain with AIMA; the police deal with the border and expulsions. What to do if you receive a notice to leave the country is covered in our guide Removal from Portugal: what to do if your residence permit has expired or was not renewed.

  Source: noticiasaominuto.com

  

• onda de calor20K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  The ninth heatwave of the year: according to IPMA (the weather service), from 10 to 16 October temperatures in the north-east of the country reached 31–⁠33°C. In all, mainland Portugal has had 98 heatwave days in 2026, the most since records began (the previous record was 97 days in 2009).

  Source: sapo.pt

• vento5K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Wind: for Sunday 18 October, IPMA forecasts a north-easterly wind gusting up to 70 km/h in the mountains of the North and Centre. There is no wind warning, but there is a yellow warning for thunderstorms and downpours of 10–⁠20 mm an hour from 6:00 to 18:00 in the districts of Évora, Beja, Portalegre and Faro.

  Source: ipma.pt

• guarda nacional republicana2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  The GNR (Guarda Nacional Republicana, the National Republican Guard) is the police force outside the big cities and on the motorways; we do not know why people started searching for it today.

• discoteca2K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  A shooting outside the Barrio Latino nightclub in Lisbon: on the morning of 18 October a man who had been thrown out of the club at around 5am came back with a gun and grazed a security guard. The guard's life is not in danger, and the Polícia Judiciária (the criminal police) is looking for the gunman.

  Source: sol.iol.pt

• embalagem1K+ searches
  Published 1 November 2026, 17:12

  Packaging: a new EU packaging regulation (PPWR) has applied since 12 August 2026. From 2027 cafés and restaurants must accept customers' own containers for takeaway food, from 2028 they must offer reusable packaging, and from 2030 they must stop using single-portion sachets of sauce, sugar and milk for customers eating in. Restaurant owners warn that some of the cost will be passed on in prices.

  Source: dnoticias.pt