LISBON, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa said on Thursday that the second wave of COVID-19 has caused a situation "more serious and more critical than that experienced in the first wave of the pandemic" in the country.
"We have an evolution of new cases that is higher than that in the first wave, and we have a higher number of hospitalized, more people in intensive care units and a higher number of new deaths per day than the first wave," he said after the meeting of the Council of Ministers.
