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Portugal sends 12,000 COVID-19 vaccines to Timor-Leste
Xinhua
20 Jul 2021, 07:18 GMT+10
LISBON, July 19 (Xinhua) The Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday that it had sent to Timor-Leste a batch of 12,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, as well as syringes and needles. This action concludes the first cycle of sending vaccines to the PALOP (Portuguese-speaking African Countries) and Timor-Leste, said the Portuguese government in an official statement. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there was a political commitment to make available to those countries, which are our main cooperation partners, at least five percent of the vaccines against COVID-19 purchased by Portugal.
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A new tranche of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine, 662,220 doses, will arrive at the Otopeni airport on Monday, the National Coordinating Committee for Vaccination Activities against COVID-19 informs in a press release sent to AGERPRES.
The transportation of the vaccine doses to the storage centre is provided by the manufacturing company, including by land. The vaccines are transported safely in special containers with carbonic ice and sealed foil.
The doses will be stored at the National Storage Centre, and in the next period they will be distributed to the existing regional centres nationwide. The National Centre for the Storage of the Vaccine against COVID-19, which is part of the Cantacuzino Institute, is fully authorized by the National Authority for Medicines and Medical Devices of Romania (ANMDMR), the national authority operating in the field of medicinal products for human use.
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The results of self-tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus can now all be reported on an electronic platform, even positive and inconclusive ones, which until now were.