Portugal's coronavirus cases have passed 100,000 mark, with nearly 2,000 new infections in the past 24 hours, days after tough new measures to contain the disease came into force, Reuters reported.

“Everyone's tiredness is legitimate but it cannot legitimise failure,” the secretary of state for health, Antonio Sales, told a news conference. “We continue to depend on each other — and our success is the success of Portugal.”

The nation of just over 10 million people initially won praise for its quick response to the pandemic.