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The prime minister said Portugal is willing to buy around 16 million doses of three covid-19 vaccines and added that Brussels is preparing to combat disinformation campaigns in relation to vaccination.
These positions were transmitted by António Costa at a press conference, at the end of the summit of heads of state and government on the fight against covid-19, which was carried out by videoconference.
Before journalists, the Prime Minister reiterated the idea that vaccines against covid-19 “will be distributed according to a grid defined by the European Commission, taking into account the population of each member state.”
They will be distributed simultaneously in all Member States and under the same conditions.“, the Prime Minister reinforced.
In the case of Portugal, according to António Costa, “for three of the vaccines, the doses to buy are already defined: in one 6.9 million; in another 4.6 million; and in the third, 4.5 million.”
This is what is currently being defined according to the distribution scale that has been defined according to the population of all Member States “, justified the prime minister.
At the summit of heads of state and government, in agreement with the prime minister, “it was also established that the European Commission will develop the work so that there is a common information strategy on vaccination, so there is confidence in European citizens around the vaccine against covid-19 ”.
A campaign that, according to the Portuguese Prime Minister, “aims to prevent false information and counter-information campaigns, campaigns that are known to be being prepared against the vaccination program.”
Regarding the vaccination program, António Costa said that the European Commission confirmed that it had already signed four contracts with multinational pharmaceutical companies, and that three more are still being negotiated.
“There is a joint effort between the European and North American pharmaceutical agencies to have a simultaneous recognition and approval of the vaccines that are in development. The president of the European Commission, Ursula Von der Leyen, reported that there is an optimistic idea from the European Medical Agency that, during the month of December, it will be able to grant the first conditional authorizations for vaccines ”, he added.
