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At the end of the year, Portugal will receive another 70,200 doses of vaccines against covid-19, one more than those initially planned for this year, totaling 79,950 doses, announced this Wednesday the Minister of Health, Marta Temido.
The announcement was made tonight, in a statement to journalists without the right to ask questions, in which Marta Temido explained that a first batch of vaccines will arrive in Portugal on Saturday 26, and that another batch will arrive two days later.
Marta Temido said that the pharmaceutical company that developed the vaccine to be administered by Portugal anticipated the delivery of the second batch. Thus, to the 9,750 planned vaccines, there are another 70,200 doses that will arrive in Portugal at the end of this year.
Vaccines against covid-19 begin to be administered on day 27.
The covid-19 pandemic caused at least 1,718,209 deaths derived from more than 77.9 million cases of contagion worldwide, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 6,343 people died from 383,258 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
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