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[ad_1] Moderna’s vaccine against covid-19 produced persistent antibodies 90 days after its application, according to a study of 34 participants at the beginning of clinical trials, published this Thursday in New England Journal of Medicine. The duration of protection is likely to be longer, but these are the first data, …

[ad_1] The Association of Health Centers (ACES) of Médio Tejo registered 70 new cases of contagion by the new coronavirus in the last 24 hours and reached 3,182 infections since the start of the pandemic. The new cases were reported in Alcanena (+36), Abrantes (+12), Tomar (+10), Torres Novas (+10), …

[ad_1] The Pfizer-BioNtech vaccines against covid-19 that will arrive in the UK from next week, and probably the first to arrive in Portugal as a result of this collaboration, should be frozen, at minus 70 degrees Celsius, from the factory of Puurs. in Belgium, a small city with several pharmaceutical …

[ad_1] Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa sent today to Parliament the renewal of the state of emergency that lasted between December 9 and 23. The document will be debated and voted on at 3:00 pm on Friday in Parliament. But the president also announced the renewal of this EdE until January …

[ad_1] In January the latest chapter of this pandemic may begin. Francisco Ramos, coordinator of the working group created for the Covid-19 vaccination plan, announced this Thursday that “The information that exists today on the process gives us enough security to say that in January we will begin to vaccinate”. …

[ad_1] Today, December 3, the Autonomous Region of Madeira registers 15 new positive cases of covid-19, thus counting 826 confirmed cases in the regional territory. These are two imported cases from the United Kingdom and 13 cases of local transmission, all associated with contacts of previously identified positive cases. It …

[ad_1] The Prime Minister wants to “get to Christmas with the situation duly controlled” and, therefore, defends that “the pressure on spring” is maintained until then. Upon leaving the Infarmed meeting, António Costa did not want to say if he would allow any relief of the rules at Christmas, although …

[ad_1] In the last 24 hours, Portugal registered 79 more deaths and 3,772 new cases of contagion, according to the bulletin of the General Directorate of Health this Thursday. Since the start of the pandemic, 4,724 people out of 307,618 confirmed cases of infection have died in Portugal. Another 5,572 …

[ad_1] For the Portuguese included in the first phase of vaccination who are not in homes and long-term care units, there will be 1,200 vaccination points throughout the country available to administer vaccines against covid-19. The health centers will be the places where this drug will be available and administered, …

[ad_1] The first phase of the anti-covid 19 vaccination plan – a vaccine that will be universal and free – will cover 950,000 people, announced the coordinator of the workgroup Who drew up the plan, Francisco Ramos, former Secretary of State for Health and former president of the OPI. The …