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At the end of last week, the priority groups for vaccination against Covid-19 were revealed by the national press, present in a preliminary proposal of the working group that is preparing the vaccination strategy, which excluded the group with priority to the elderly 75 years and without comorbidities.
According to the Minister of State and Presidency, “the decision-making process for the vaccination plan is a process that will continue in the coming days, with technical meetings on the side of vaccination criteria, with meetings on the organizational side of distribution logistics ”He said last Friday. And then, finally, with a political decision on the entire process that the Portuguese Government will communicate, ”he said.
The coordinator of this working group, Francisco Ramos, had revealed that same day that the final details were still being worked on and that the definition of priority groups will probably be finalized this week.
Jornal de Notícias advances that the presentation of the plan will be this week and recalls that the Portuguese Ministry of Health has not yet confirmed whether it has sent a document to Brussels, although it is preliminary after the president of the European Commission asked the member states to present your vaccination plans at the end of November.
The logistics sector is preparing, as it can, at a stage in which there are still several unknowns, for the distribution of vaccines.
According to a proposal by the DGS specialists, reproduced in the newspapers on Friday, people between 50 and 75 years old with serious illnesses, employees and users of nursing homes and health professionals involved in direct care should be the first to be vaccinated against covid-19, which makes a total of 750 thousand people to be vaccinated.
It is followed by 45,000 members of the security and civil protection forces, as well as the chronically ill between 50 and 75 years, which include diabetes or cancer, so that three million more need priority vaccines.
Among the groups that should receive the vaccine earlier are people over 65 years of age, but they were considered a lower priority, and the decision will have been made since scientific consensus on the effectiveness of the vaccines has not yet been reached. in this group.
Lacerda Sales, Undersecretary of State and Health, said this Friday that the government had received a proposal from the DGS on vaccination that “includes all the elderly in the homes, without age limits”, as well as “the professionals of these homes “. health professionals, forces of authority, patients with comorbidities “.
“So this is the reality of the proposal we received,” which “has not yet been analyzed by the Ministry of Health”, but which, “in due course, thoughtful and serene”, will be the object of analysis and “political decision.” “, said.
