On March 2, 2020, the first case of COVID-19 was identified in Portugal. On March 18, 2020, a state of emergency was declared in Portugal for the first time in its democratic history. On April 27, 2020, the first communication of the Webinar Conference Series "COVID-19 and the Law" took place, under the auspices of the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Lusófona University (Porto).
