“Vaccination should not be promoted outside the age limits” By TPN/Lusa, in News, COVID-19 · 13-05-2021 15:00:00 · 0 Comments
The coordinator of the task-force for the vaccination plan against covid-19 has defended that vaccination outside the age limit determined for some vaccines, allowed by rules, should not be promoted by the authorities.
Gouveia e Melo, who was speaking at the Parliamentary Health Commission, answered a question about the standards issued by the General Directorate of Health (DGS), which allow people outside the age limit for the Janssen vaccine (administered from the age of 50 years) and Astrazeneca (from 60 years old) can choose to receive these vaccines. “There is that possibility and it is being studied. The only concern that must be taken into account is the fact that we shoul
The unknown prick By Kim Schiffmann, in Opinion · 16-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
I know that at the moment there probably isn’t a hotter topic than the Covid-19 vaccine and reading the comments on our website has shown me that there isn’t only a huge amount of controversy around this topic, but also a lot of misinformation.
Already typing these first few words of this opinion piece makes me wonder whether I should have just let it go and wrote about something that maybe is not so serious and won’t cause that much backlash. But where is the fun in that?
Over 60’s to be vaccinated by first week of June By Daisy Sampson, in News · 16-04-2021 01:00:00 · 0 Comments
The rolling out of an ambitious vaccination plan in Portugal includes the vaccination of the over 60’s by June and for all those over 30 by August.
Those over the age of 60 years of age are to be vaccinated against Covid-19 by the beginning of June, according to the task force coordinator of the vaccination plan Henrique Gouveia e Melo.
“When we vaccinate the entire population over 60, in reality, we will - according to the death related data - be protecting 96.4 percent of the people who died as a result of this pandemic. We will reach this value between the last week of May and the first week of June,” said the official at the Infarmed meeting in Lisbon, which brings together experts, members o
Covid-19: Interval between taking doses of Pfizer vaccine rises to 28 days By TPN/Lusa, in COVID-19, Health · 02-03-2021 11:14:00 · 0 Comments
The period between taking the two doses of the Pfizer / BioNtech vaccine against covid-19 has been extended from 21 to 28 days, announced today the Deputy Secretary of State for Health, António Lacerda Sales. According to the minister, the change in the interval time will allow to increase the vaccination rate in more than 100 thousand people until the end of this month, having also underlined the “broad technical consensus” around the revision of the standard by the Directorate-General of the Health about this vaccine.
Nearly 250 thousand Portuguese have already received the two doses of the vaccine
Nearly 250 thousand Portuguese have already received the two doses of the vaccine for Covid-19 according the DGS, corresponding to 3% of the population.
According to the same data from the Directorate General of Health (DGS) since the start of the vaccination plan against SARS-CoV-2, on 27 December, 433,475 people have already received at least one dose of the vaccine, and 96,701 people were inoculated last week.
In the Centre region, 163,749 people have been vaccinated, 34,271 more than last week, corresponding to 4 percent of the population, while in Alentejo, 51,347 people have received two doses of the vaccine, 6,683 more, also representing 4 percent of the population.