Portugal to enter most critical month for coronavirus: PM

Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa warned Monday that Portugal will enter "the most critical month" of the pandemic COVID-19, Lusa News Agency reported.

After visiting several new hospital support units in Lisbon, the prime minister promised that his government spares no effort to get prepared for the worst scenario.

"The country is going to enter the most critical month of this pandemic and that is why it is essential that we prepare for this month that we are going to face," he was quoted as saying by Lusa.

According to the daily bulletin of the Directorate-General for Health on Monday, 446 new cases of infection and 21 new deaths associated with COVID-19 were reported in the past 24 hours, bringing Portugal's total number of confirmed cases to 6,408, and deaths to 140, respectively.