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The Undersecretary of State for Health and Health said today that the flu vaccination campaign will begin at the beginning of this year, after the Government has managed to anticipate the supply of vaccines.
“We inform you that, this week, the Ministry of Health managed to guarantee the anticipation of the delivery of the first more than 100,000 doses of the vaccine. [contra a gripe] health units of the National Health Service [SNS]“, said Jamila Madeira, at the press conference of evaluation of the Covid-19 pandemic in Portugal.
This will allow the Directorate General of Health (DGS) to “better plan” the distribution of this vaccine to citizens of the priority and most vulnerable groups, he said.
The official recalled the option taken by the Government this year “especially atypical” to make the “largest purchase ever made in the country” of the flu vaccine, out of a total of two million vaccines.
In this way, he added, the distribution will begin “in advance”, which means “more flu vaccines for the Portuguese and sooner guaranteed for those who need it most.”
“Early delivery will allow you to anticipate vaccination a few days, days that are very useful, especially in homes and risk groups.”Stressed the Director General of Health.
However, Graça Freitas explained that vaccination cannot start too early because the vaccine can lose its effectiveness during the flu season.
The general director of Health, Graça Freitas, during the daily press conference on the new coronavirus (Covid-19) held at the Ministry of Health, in Lisbon
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Another novelty of this campaign is the fact that pregnant women and professionals from homes and institutions with vulnerable people can receive the vaccine for free, he said.
In addition to these, the director general said that they are studying integration in the group of free people with “very specific and even rare clinical situations that can lead to greater vulnerability.”
A The Covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 869,718 deaths and infected more than 26.3 million people in 196 countries and territories, according to an assessment by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal 1,833 people died of the 59,457 confirmed as infected, according to the latest bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
