section_path: Economic impact by continent, region and country/Europe/Portugal
section_name: Portugal
paragraph_text: Portugal
  
  Due to an increase in the demand for masks, on 1 February most masks were sold out in Portuguese pharmacies.
  
  On 4 February, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the President of the Portuguese Republic, admitted that the epidemic of the new coronavirus in China "affects the economic activity of a very powerful economy and thus affects the world's economic activity or could affect". He also admitted the possibility of economic upheavals due to the break in production."